Plant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes

ABSTRACT

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a branched-chain biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the branched-chain biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the branched-chain biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.

This application is a divisional application of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/173,300, filed Oct. 15, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,451,581 which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/063,423, filed Oct. 28, 1997.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention is in the field of plant molecular biology. More specifically, this invention pertains to nucleic acid fragments encoding enzymes involved in biosynthesis and utilization of branched chain amino acids in plants and seeds.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Many vertebrates, including man, lack the ability to manufacture a number of amino acids and therefore require these amino acids preformed in their diet. These are called essential amino acids. Plants are able to synthesize all twenty amino acids and serve as the ultimate source of the essential amino acids for humans and animals. Thus, the ability to manipulate the production and accumulation of the essential amino acids in plants would be of considerable importance and value. Furthermore, the inability of animals to synthesize these amino acids provides a useful distinction between animal and plant cellular metabolism. This can be exploited for the discovery of herbicidal chemical compounds that target enzymes in the plant biosynthetic pathways of the essential amino acids and thus have low toxicity to animals.

The branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine are three of the essential amino acids. Biosynthesis of these amino acids proceeds, in part, via the common enzymes acetolactate synthase, acetohydroxyacid reductoisomerase, dihydroxyacid dehydratase and branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, and in part via enzymes specific for one of the amino acids, threonine dehydratase (isoleucine), and α-isopropylmalate synthase, 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase and β-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (leucine). Regulation of the biosynthesis of each member of this family in plants is interconnected (see FIG. 1), but understanding of the control is poor.

Few of the genes encoding enzymes that regulate this pathway in plants, especially corn, soybeans, rice and wheat, have been isolated and sequenced. For example, no plant genes have yet been reported for dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase or 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase. Accordingly, the availability of nucleic acid sequences encoding all or a portion of these enzymes would facilitate studies to better understand the cellular control of the pathway, provide genetic tools for the manipulation of the pathway and provide a means to evaluate chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the activity of these plant enzymes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The instant invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding plant enzymes involved in biosynthesis and utilization of branched-chain amino acids. Specifically, this invention concerns an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase. In addition, this invention relates to a nucleic acid fragment that is complementary to the nucleic acid fragment encoding dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

An additional embodiment of the instant invention pertains to a polypeptide encoding all or a substantial portion of a plant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme selected from the group consisting of dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, and leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

In another embodiment, the instant invention relates to a chimeric gene encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or to a chimeric gene that comprises a nucleic acid fragment that is complementary to a nucleic acid fragment encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid amino-transferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, operably linked to suitable regulatory sequences, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of levels of the encoded protein in a transformed host cell that is altered (i.e., increased or decreased) from the level produced in an untransformed host cell.

In a further embodiment, the instant invention concerns a transformed host cell comprising in its genome a chimeric gene encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, operably linked to suitable regulatory sequences. Expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the encoded protein in the transformed host cell. The transformed host cell can be of eukaryotic or prokaryotic origin, and include cells derived from higher plants and microorganisms. The invention also includes transformed plants that arise from transformed host cells of higher plants, and seeds derived from such transformed plants.

An additional embodiment of the instant invention concerns a method of altering the level of expression of a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in a transformed host cell comprising: a) transforming a host cell with a chimeric gene comprising a nucleic acid fragment encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase; and b) growing the transformed host cell under conditions that are suitable for expression of the chimeric gene wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in the transformed host cell.

An addition embodiment of the instant invention concerns a method for obtaining a nucleic acid fragment encoding all or a substantial portion of an amino acid sequence encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

A further embodiment of the instant invention is a method for evaluating at least one compound for its ability to inhibit the activity of a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, the method comprising the steps of: (a) transforming a host cell with a chimeric gene comprising a nucleic acid fragment encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, operably linked to suitable regulatory sequences; (b) growing the transformed host cell under conditions that are suitable for expression of the chimeric gene wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in the transformed host cell; (c) optionally purifying the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase expressed by the transformed host cell; (d) treating the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase with a compound to be tested; and (e) comparing the activity of the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase that has been treated with a test compound to the activity of an untreated dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, thereby selecting compounds with potential for inhibitory activity.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS AND SEQUENCE DESCRIPTIONS

The invention can be more fully understood from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings and Sequence Listing which form a part of this application.

FIG. 1 depicts the metabolic pathway leading to biosynthesis and utilization of the branched chain amino acids isoleucine, valine and leucine. The following abbreviations are used: ALS=acetolactate synthase; AHRI=acetohydroxyacid reductoisomerase; DHAD=dihydroxyacid dehydratase; BCAT=branched chain amino acid aminotransferase; IPMS=isporpoylmalate synthase; IPMD=3-isopropylmalate dehydratase; and IPMDH=isopropylmalate deyhdrogenase.

FIG. 2 (A-C) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the dihydroxyacid dehydratase from corn clone cr1.pk0032.c4 (SEQ ID NO:2), soybean contig assembled from clones se3.pk0006.g4, and ses9c.pk001.o8 (SEQ ID NO:4), wheat clone wkm2c.pk005.c12 (SEQ ID NO:6), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (NCBI gi Accession No. 1170543, SEQ ID NO:7). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequences are an asterisk (*).

FIG. 3 (A-C) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the branched chain amino acid transaminase from corn clone cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 (SEQ ID NO:9), corn clone cen6.pk0003.b5 (SEQ ID NO:11), corn clone cta1n.pk0070.e7 (SEQ ID NO:13), rice clone rls24.pk0025.f6 (SEQ ID NO:15), soybean clone ses8w.pk0032.e9 (SEQ ID NO:17), wheat clone wlm96.pk027.n2 (SEQ ID NO:19), and Bacillus subtilis (NCBI gi Accession No. 1706292, SEQ ID NO:20). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequence are indicated by an asterisk (*).

FIG. 4 (A-B) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the branched chain amino acid transaminase from rice clone rls72.pk0014.a3 (SEQ ID NO:22), soybean clone sre.pk0001.d1 (SEQ ID NO:24), soybean clone srr2c.pk003.d20 (SEQ ID NO:26), wheat clone w11n.pk0123.c11 (SEQ ID NO:28), and Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 124380, SEQ ID NO:29). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequences are by an asterisk (*).

FIG. 5 (A-B) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the branched chain amino acid transaminase from corn clone cco1.pk0030.d2 (SEQ ID NO:31), wheat clone wkm1c.pk0004.c7 (SEQ ID NO:33), and Escherichia coli (NCBI gi Accession No. 1705437, SEQ ID NO:34). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequences are indicated by an asterisk (*).

FIG. 6 (A-C) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase from the corn contig assembled from clones cen1.pk0032.b1, cta1n.pk0077.c7, cen3n.pk0015.g3, cen3n.pk0060.h4, and cen3n.pk0121.h11 (SEQ ID NO:36), corn clone cr1n.pk0153.e9 (SEQ ID NO:38), rice clone r10n.pk087.k16 (SEQ ID NO:40), soybean contig assembled from clones sdp3c.pk008.k13, and srm.pk0006.h5 (SEQ ID NO:42), wheat clone wre1n.pk0045.b10 (SEQ ID NO:44), and Rhizomucor pusillus (NCBI gi Accession No. 1708799, SEQ ID NO:45). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequence are indicated by an asterisk (*).

FIG. 7 (A-B) depicts the amino acid sequence alignments between the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase from corn clone cr1n.pk0123.b7 (SEQ ID NO:47), rice clone rls12.pk0001.c2 (SEQ ID NO:49), soybean clone srr1c.pk003.c2 (SEQ ID NO:51), wheat clone w11n.pk0048.a6 (SEQ ID NO:53), and Laciococcus lactis (NCBI gi Accession No. 400187, SEQ ID NO:54). Amino acids which are conserved among all sequences are indicated with a plus sign (+) while those conserved only within the plant sequences are indicated by an asterisk (*).

The following sequence descriptions and the Sequence Listing attached hereto comply with the rules governing nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosures in patent applications as set forth in 37 C.F.R. §1.821-1.825.

SEQ ID NO:1 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1.pk0032.c4 encoding a full-length corn dihydroxyacid dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:2 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a corn dihydroxyacid dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.

SEQ ID NO:3 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the contig formed from a portion of the cDNA insert in clone ses9c.pk001.o8 and the entire cDNA insert in clone se3.pk0006.g4 encoding a full-length soybean dihydroxyacid dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:4 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a soybean dihydroxyacid dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:3.

SEQ ID NO:5 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a portion of the cDNA insert in clone wkm2c.pk005.c12 encoding the C-terminal 156 amino acid from a wheat dihydroxyacid dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:6 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a fragment from a wheat dihydroxyacid dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:5.

SEQ ID NO:7 is the amino acid sequence of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae dihydroxyacid dehydratase (NCBI gi Accession No. 1170543).

SEQ ID NO:8 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a portion of the cDNA insert in clone cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 encoding a fragment of a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:9 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a fragment of a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8.

SEQ ID NO:10 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone cen6.pk0003.b5 encoding the C-terminal half of a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:11 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal half of a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:10.

SEQ ID NO:12 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a portion of the cDNA insert in clone cta1n.pk0070.e7 encoding the C-terminal 110 amino acids from a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:13 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal 110 amino acids from a corn branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:12.

SEQ ID NO:14 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone rls24.pk0025.f6 encoding the C-terminal 75% of a rice branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:15 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal 75% of a rice branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:16.

SEQ ID NO:16 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone ses8w.pk0032.e9 encoding the N-terminal 60% of a soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:17 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the N-terminal 60% of a soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:16.

SEQ ID NO:18 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone wlm96.pk027.n2 encoding the C-terminal 93% of a wheat branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:19 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal 93% of a wheat branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:18.

SEQ ID NO:20 is the amino acid sequence of a Bacillus subtilis branched chain amino acid transaminase (NCBI gi Accession No. 1176947).

SEQ ID NO:21 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone rls72.pk0014.a3 encoding the C-terminal 82% of a rice branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:22 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal 82% of a rice branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:21.

SEQ ID NO:23 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone sre.pk0001.d1 encoding a full-length soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:24 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:23.

SEQ ID NO:25 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone srr2c.pk003.d20 encoding a full length soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:26 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full length soybean branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:25.

SEQ ID NO:27 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone w11n.pk0123.c11 encoding approximately the C-terminal 80% of a wheat branched-chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:28 is the deduced amino acid sequence of approximately the C-terminal 80% of a wheat branched-chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:27.

SEQ ID NO:29 is the amino acid sequence of a Methanococcus jannaschii branched chain amino acid transaminase (NCBI gi Accession No. 3122287).

SEQ ID NO:30 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone cco1.pk0030.d2 encoding a full-length corn branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:31 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length corn branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:30.

SEQ ID NO:32 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone wkm1c.pk0004.c7 encoding the C-terminal 80% of a wheat branched chain amino acid transaminase.

SEQ ID NO:33 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal 80% of a wheat branched chain amino acid transaminase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:32.

SEQ ID NO:34 is the amino acid sequence of a Escherichia coli branched chain amino acid transaminase (NCBI gi Accession No. 124380).

SEQ ID NO:35 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the contig assembled from the cDNA insert in clones cen1.pk0032.b1, cta1n.pk0077.c7, cen3n.pk0015.g3, cen3n.pk0060.h4, and cen3n.pk0121.h11 encoding a nearly full-length corn leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:36 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a nearly full-length corn leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:35.

SEQ ID NO:37 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1n.pk0153.e9 encoding a full-length corn leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:38 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length corn leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:37.

SEQ ID NO:39 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a portion of the cDNA insert in clone r10n.pk087.k16 encoding a fragment of a rice leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:40 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a fragment of a rice leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:39.

SEQ ID NO:41 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a contig assembled from the cDNA insert in clones sdp3c.pk008.k13, and srm.pk0006.h5 encoding the C-terminal half of a soybean leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:42 is the deduced amino acid sequence of the C-terminal half of a soybean leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:41.

SEQ ID NO:43 is the nucleotide sequence comprising a portion of the cDNA insert in clone wre1n.pk0045.b10 encoding a portion of a wheat leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:44 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a portion of a wheat leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:43.

SEQ ID NO:45 is the amino acid sequence of a Rhizomucor pusillus leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase (NCBI gi Accession No. 1708799).

SEQ ID NO:46 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1n.pk0123.b7 encoding a full-length corn leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:47 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length corn leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:46.

SEQ ID NO:48 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone rls12.pk0001.c2 encoding a full-length rice leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:49 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length rice leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:48.

SEQ ID NO:50 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone srr1c.pk003.c2 encoding a full-length soybean leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:51 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length soybean leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:50.

SEQ ID NO:52 is the nucleotide sequence comprising the entire cDNA insert in clone w11n.pk0048.a6 encoding a full-length wheat leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

SEQ ID NO:53 is the deduced amino acid sequence of a full-length wheat leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase derived from the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:52.

SEQ ID NO:54 is the amino acid sequence of a Lactococcus lactis leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase located in NCBI gi Accession No. 400187.

The Sequence Listing contains the one letter code for nucleotide sequence characters and the three letter codes for amino acids as defined in conformity with the IUPAC-IUBMB standards described in Nucleic Acids Research 13: 3021-3030 (1985) and in the Biochemical Journal 219 (No. 2):345-373 (1984) which are herein incorporated by reference. The symbols and format used for nucleotide and amino acid sequence data comply with the rules set forth in 37 C.F.R. §1.822.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In the context of this disclosure, a number of terms shall be utilized. As used herein, an “isolated nucleic acid fragment” is a polymer of RNA or DNA that is single- or double-stranded, optionally containing synthetic, non-natural or altered nucleotide bases. An isolated nucleic acid fragment in the form of a polymer of DNA may be comprised of one or more segments of cDNA, genomic DNA or synthetic DNA. As used herein, “contig” refers to an assemblage of overlapping nucleic acid sequences to form one contiguous nucleotide sequence. For example, several DNA sequences can be compared and aligned to identify common or overlapping regions. The individual sequences can then be assembled into a single contiguous nucleotide sequence.

As used herein, “substantially similar” refers to nucleic acid fragments wherein changes in one or more nucleotide bases results in substitution of one or more amino acids, but do not affect the functional properties of the protein encoded by the DNA sequence. “Substantially similar” also refers to nucleic acid fragments wherein changes in one or more nucleotide bases does not affect the ability of the nucleic acid fragment to mediate alteration of gene expression by antisense or co-suppression technology. “Substantially similar” also refers to modifications of the nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention such as deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides that do not substantially affect the functional properties of the resulting transcript vis-á-vis the ability to mediate alteration of gene expression by antisense or co-suppression technology or alteration of the functional properties of the resulting protein molecule. It is therefore understood that the invention encompasses more than the specific exemplary sequences.

For example, it is well known in the art that antisense suppression and co-suppression of gene expression may be accomplished using nucleic acid fragments representing less than the entire coding region of a gene, and by nucleic acid fragments that do not share 100% sequence identity with the gene to be suppressed. Moreover, alterations in a gene which result in the production of a chemically equivalent amino acid at a given site, but do not effect the functional properties of the encoded protein, are well known in the art. Thus, a codon for the amino acid alanine, a hydrophobic amino acid, may be substituted by a codon encoding another less hydrophobic residue, such as glycine, or a more hydrophobic residue, such as valine, leucine, or isoleucine. Similarly, changes which result in substitution of one negatively charged residue for another, such as aspartic acid for glutamic acid, or one positively charged residue for another, such as lysine for arginine, can also be expected to produce a functionally equivalent product. Nucleotide changes which result in alteration of the N-terminal and C-terminal portions of the protein molecule would also not be expected to alter the activity of the protein. Each of the proposed modifications is well within the routine skill in the art, as is determination of retention of biological activity of the encoded products. Moreover, the skilled artisan recognizes that substantially similar nucleic acid sequences encompassed by this invention are also defined by their ability to hybridize, under stringent conditions (0.1×SSC, 0.1% SDS, 65° C.), with the sequences exemplified herein. Preferred substantially similar nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention are those nucleic acid fragments whose DNA sequences are 80% identical to the coding sequence of the nucleic acid fragments reported herein. More preferred nucleic acid fragments are 90% identical to the coding sequence of the nucleic acid fragments reported herein. Most preferred are nucleic acid fragments that are 95% identical to the coding sequence of the nucleic acid fragments reported herein.

A “substantial portion” of an amino acid or nucleotide sequence comprises an effective length of the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide or the nucleotide sequence of a gene to conduct correlation assessment and putative identification of that polypeptide or gene, either by manual evaluation of the sequence by one skilled in the art, or by computer-automated sequence comparison and identification using algorithms such as BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool; Altschul, S. F., et al., (1993) J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410. In general, a sequence of ten or more contiguous amino acids or thirty or more nucleotides is necessary in order to putatively identify a polypeptide or nucleic acid sequence as homologous to a known protein or gene. Moreover, with respect to nucleotide sequences, gene specific oligonucleotide probes comprising 20-30 contiguous nucleotides may be used in sequence-dependent methods of gene identification (e.g., Southern hybridization) and isolation (e.g., in situ hybridization of bacterial colonies or bacteriophage plaques). In addition, short oligonucleotides of 12-15 bases may be used as amplification primers in PCR in order to obtain a particular nucleic acid fragment comprising the primers. Accordingly, a “substantial portion” of a nucleotide sequence comprises enough of the sequence to afford specific identification and/or isolation of a nucleic acid fragment comprising the sequence. The instant specification teaches partial or complete amino acid and nucleotide sequences encoding one or more particular plant proteins. The skilled artisan, having the benefit of the sequences as reported herein, may now use all or a substantial portion of the disclosed sequences for purposes known to those skilled in this art. Accordingly, the instant invention comprises the complete sequences as reported in the accompanying Sequence Listing, as well as substantial portions of those sequences as defined above.

“Codon degeneracy” refers to divergence in the genetic code permitting variation of the nucleotide sequence without effecting the amino acid sequence of an encoded polypeptide. Accordingly, the instant invention relates to any nucleic acid fragment that encodes all or a substantial portion of the amino acid sequence encoding the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase proteins as set forth in SEQ ID NOs:2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 28, 31, 33, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 47, 49, 51, and 53. The skilled artisan is well aware of the “codon-bias” exhibited by a specific host cell in usage of nucleotide codons to specify a given amino acid. Therefore, when synthesizing a gene for improved expression in a host cell, it is desirable to design the gene such that its frequency of codon usage approaches the frequency of preferred codon usage of the host cell.

“Synthetic genes” can be assembled from oligonucleotide building blocks that are chemically synthesized using procedures known to those skilled in the art. These building blocks are ligated and annealed to form gene segments which are then enzymatically assembled to construct the entire gene. “Chemically synthesized”, as related to a sequence of DNA, means that the component nucleotides were assembled in vitro. Manual chemical synthesis of DNA may be accomplished using well established procedures, or automated chemical synthesis can be performed using one of a number of commercially available machines. Accordingly, the genes can be tailored for optimal gene expression based on optimization of nucleotide sequence to reflect the codon bias of the host cell. The skilled artisan appreciates the likelihood of successful gene expression if codon usage is biased towards those codons favored by the host. Determination of preferred codons can be based on a survey of genes derived from the host cell where sequence information is available.

“Gene” refers to a nucleic acid fragment that expresses a specific protein, including regulatory sequences preceding (5′ non-coding sequences) and following (3′ non-coding sequences) the coding sequence. “Native gene” refers to a gene as found in nature with its own regulatory sequences. “Chimeric gene” refers any gene that is not a native gene, comprising regulatory and coding sequences that are not found together in nature. Accordingly, a chimeric gene may comprise regulatory sequences and coding sequences that are derived from different sources, or regulatory sequences and coding sequences derived from the same source, but arranged in a manner different than that found in nature. “Endogenous gene” refers to a native gene in its natural location in the genome of an organism. A “foreign” gene refers to a gene not normally found in the host organism, but that is introduced into the host organism by gene transfer. Foreign genes can comprise native genes inserted into a non-native organism, or chimeric genes. A “transgene” is a gene that has been introduced into the genome by a transformation procedure.

“Coding sequence” refers to a DNA sequence that codes for a specific amino acid sequence. “Regulatory sequences” refer to nucleotide sequences located upstream (5′ non-coding sequences), within, or downstream (3′ non-coding sequences) of a coding sequence, and which influence the transcription, RNA processing or stability, or translation of the associated coding sequence. Regulatory sequences may include promoters, translation leader sequences, introns, and polyadenylation recognition sequences.

“Promoter” refers to a DNA sequence capable of controlling the expression of a coding sequence or functional RNA. In general, a coding sequence is located 3′ to a promoter sequence. The promoter sequence consists of proximal and more distal upstream elements, the latter elements often referred to as enhancers. Accordingly, an “enhancer” is a DNA sequence which can stimulate promoter activity and may be an innate element of the promoter or a heterologous element inserted to enhance the level or tissue-specificity of a promoter. Promoters may be derived in their entirety from a native gene, or be composed of different elements derived from different promoters found in nature, or even comprise synthetic DNA segments. It is understood by those skilled in the art that different promoters may direct the expression of a gene in different tissues or cell types, or at different stages of development, or in response to different environmental conditions. Promoters which cause a gene to be expressed in most cell types at most times are commonly referred to as “constitutive promoters”. New promoters of various types useful in plant cells are constantly being discovered; numerous examples may be found in the compilation by Okamuro and Goldberg, (1989) Biochemistry of Plants 15: 1-82. It is further recognized that since in most cases the exact boundaries of regulatory sequences have not been completely defined, DNA fragments of different lengths may have identical promoter activity.

The “translation leader sequence” refers to a DNA sequence located between the promoter sequence of a gene and the coding sequence. The translation leader sequence is present in the fully processed mRNA upstream of the translation start sequence. The translation leader sequence may affect processing of the primary transcript to mRNA, mRNA stability or translation efficiency. Examples of translation leader sequences have been described (Turner, R. and Foster, G. D. (1995) Molecular Biotechnology 3:225).

The “3′ non-coding sequences” refer to DNA sequences located downstream of a coding sequence and include polyadenylation recognition sequences and other sequences encoding regulatory signals capable of affecting mRNA processing or gene expression. The polyadenylation signal is usually characterized by affecting the addition of polyadenylic acid tracts to the 3′ end of the mRNA precursor. The use of different 3′ non-coding sequences is exemplified by Ingelbrecht et al., (1989) Plant Cell 1: 671-680.

“RNA transcript” refers to the product resulting from RNA polymerase-catalyzed transcription of a DNA sequence. When the RNA transcript is a perfect complementary copy of the DNA sequence, it is referred to as the primary transcript or it may be a RNA sequence derived from posttranscriptional processing of the primary transcript and is referred to as the mature RNA. “Messenger RNA (mRNA)” refers to the RNA that is without introns and that can be translated into protein by the cell. “cDNA” refers to a double-stranded DNA that is complementary to and derived from mRNA. “Sense” RNA refers to RNA transcript that includes the mRNA and so can be translated into protein by the cell. “Antisense RNA” refers to a RNA transcript that is complementary to all or part of a target primary transcript or mRNA and that blocks the expression of a target gene (U.S. Pat. No. 5,107,065, incorporated herein by reference). The complementarity of an antisense RNA may be with any part of the specific gene transcript, i.e., at the 5′ non-coding sequence, 3′ non-coding sequence, introns, or the coding sequence. “Functional RNA” refers to antisense RNA, ribozyme RNA, or other RNA that may not be translated but yet has an effect on cellular processes.

The term “operably linked” refers to the association of nucleic acid sequences on a single nucleic acid fragment so that the function of one is affected by the other. For example, a promoter is operably linked with a coding sequence when it is capable of affecting the expression of that coding sequence (i.e., that the coding sequence is under the transcriptional control of the promoter). Coding sequences can be operably linked to regulatory sequences in sense or antisense orientation.

The term “expression”, as used herein, refers to the transcription and stable accumulation of sense (mRNA) or antisense RNA derived from the nucleic acid fragment of the invention. Expression may also refer to translation of mRNA into a polypeptide. “Antisense inhibition” refers to the production of antisense RNA transcripts capable of suppressing the expression of the target protein. “Overexpression” refers to the production of a gene product in transgenic organisms that exceeds levels of production in normal or non-transformed organisms. “Co-suppression” refers to the production of sense RNA transcripts capable of suppressing the expression of identical or substantially similar foreign or endogenous genes (U.S. Pat. No. 5,231,020, incorporated herein by reference).

“Altered levels” refers to the production of gene product(s) in transgenic organisms in amounts or proportions that differ from that of normal or non-transformed organisms.

“Mature” protein refers to a post-translationally processed polypeptide; i.e., one from which any pre- or propeptides present in the primary translation product have been removed. “Precursor” protein refers to the primary product of translation of mRNA; i.e., with pre- and propeptides still present. Pre- and propeptides may be but are not limited to intracellular localization signals.

A “chloroplast transit peptide” is an amino acid sequence which is translated in conjunction with a protein and directs the protein to the chloroplast or other plastid types present in the cell in which the protein is made. “Chloroplast transit sequence” refers to a nucleotide sequence that encodes a chloroplast transit peptide. A “signal peptide” is an amino acid sequence which is translated in conjunction with a protein and directs the protein to the secretory system (Chrispeels, J. J., (1991) Ann. Rev. Plant Phys. Plant Mol. Biol. 42: 21-53). If the protein is to be directed to a vacuole, a vacuolar targeting signal (supra) can further be added, or if to the endoplasmic reticulum, an endoplasmic reticulum retention signal (supra) may be added. If the protein is to be directed to the nucleus, any signal peptide present should be removed and instead a nuclear localization signal included (Raikhel (1992) Plant Phys. 100: 1627-1632).

“Transformation” refers to the transfer of a nucleic acid fragment into the genome of a host organism, resulting in genetically stable inheritance. Host organisms containing the transformed nucleic acid fragments are referred to as “transgenic” organisms. Examples of methods of plant transformation include Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (De Blaere et al. (1987) Meth. Enzymol. 143: 277) and particle-accelerated or “gene gun” transformation technology (Klein et al. (1987) Nature (London) 327: 70-73; U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,050, incorporated herein by reference).

Standard recombinant DNA and molecular cloning techniques used herein are well known in the art and are described more fully in Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. and Maniatis, T. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, 1989 (hereinafter “Maniatis”).

Nucleic acid fragments encoding at least a portion of several plant branched chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes have been isolated and identified by comparison of random plant cDNA sequences to public databases containing nucleotide and protein sequences using the BLAST algorithms well known to those skilled in the art. Table 1 lists the proteins that are described herein, and the designation of the cDNA clones that comprise the nucleic acid fragments encoding these proteins.

TABLE 1 Branched Chain Amino Acid Biosynthetic Enzymes Enzyme Clone Plant Dihydroxyacid dehydratase cr1.pk0032.c4 corn Contig of: soybean se3.pk0006.g4 ses9c.pk001.o8 wkm2c.pk005.c12 wheat Branched chain amino acid cc7lse-b.pk0008.b5 corn transferase cco1.pk0030.d2 corn cen6.pk0003.b5 corn ctaln.pk0070.e7 corn rls24.pk0025.f6 rice rls72.pk0014.a3 rice ses8w.pk0032.e9 soybean sre.pk0001.d1 soybean srr2c.pk003.d20 soybean wkm1c.pk0004.c7 wheat wl1n.pk0123.c11 wheat wlm96.pk027.n2 wheat leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate Contig of: corn dehydratase cen1.pk0032.b1 (large subunit) cta1n.pk0077.c7 cen3n.pk0015.g3 cen3n.pk0060.h4 cen3n.pk0121.h11 cr1n.pk0153.e9 corn rl0n.pk087.k16 rice Contig of: soybean sdp3c.pk008.k13 srm.pk0006.h5 wre1n.pk0045.b10 wheat leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate cr1n.pk0123.b7 corn dehydratase rls12.pk0001.c2 rice (small subunit) srr1c.pk003.c2 soybean wl1n.pk0048.a6 wheat

The nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention may be used to isolate cDNAs and genes encoding homologous proteins from the same or other plant species. Isolation of homologous genes using sequence-dependent protocols is well known in the art. Examples of sequence-dependent protocols include, but are not limited to, methods of nucleic acid hybridization, and methods of DNA and RNA amplification as exemplified by various uses of nucleic acid amplification technologies (e.g., polymerase chain reaction, ligase chain reaction).

For example, genes encoding other dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, either as cDNAs or genomic DNAs, could be isolated directly by using all or a portion of the instant nucleic acid fragments as DNA hybridization probes to screen libraries from any desired plant employing methodology well known to those skilled in the art. Specific oligonucleotide probes based upon the instant nucleic acid sequences can be designed and synthesized by methods known in the art (Maniatis). Moreover, the entire sequences can be used directly to synthesize DNA probes by methods known to the skilled artisan such as random primer DNA labeling, nick translation, or end-labeling techniques, or RNA probes using available in vitro transcription systems. In addition, specific primers can be designed and used to amplify a part or all of the instant sequences. The resulting amplification products can be labeled directly during amplification reactions or labeled after amplification reactions, and used as probes to isolate full length cDNA or genomic fragments under conditions of appropriate stringency.

In addition, two short segments of the instant nucleic acid fragments may be used in polymerase chain reaction protocols to amplify longer nucleic acid fragments encoding homologous genes from DNA or RNA. The polymerase chain reaction may also be performed on a library of cloned nucleic acid fragments wherein the sequence of one primer is derived from the instant nucleic acid fragments, and the sequence of the other primer takes advantage of the presence of the polyadenylic acid tracts to the 3′ end of the mRNA precursor encoding plant genes. Alternatively, the second primer sequence may be based upon sequences derived from the cloning vector. For example, the skilled artisan can follow the RACE protocol (Frohman et al., (1988) PNAS USA 85:8998) to generate cDNAs by using PCR to amplify copies of the region between a single point in the transcript and the 3′ or 5′ end. Primers oriented in the 3′ and 5′ directions can be designed from the instant sequences. Using commercially available 3′ RACE or 5′ RACE systems (BRL), specific 3′ or 5′ cDNA fragments can be isolated (Ohara et al., (1989) PNAS USA 86:5673; Loh et al., (1989) Science 243:217). Products generated by the 3′ and 5′ RACE procedures can be combined to generate full-length cDNAs (Frohman, M. A. and Martin, G. R., (1989) Techniques 1:165).

Availability of the instant nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences facilitates immunological screening of cDNA expression libraries. Synthetic peptides representing portions of the instant amino acid sequences may be synthesized. These peptides can be used to immunize animals to produce polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies with specificity for peptides or proteins comprising the amino acid sequences. These antibodies can be then be used to screen cDNA expression libraries to isolate full-length cDNA clones of interest (Lerner, R. A. (1984) Adv. Immunol. 36:1; Maniatis).

The nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention may be used to create transgenic plants in which the disclosed dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase are present at higher or lower levels than normal or in cell types or developmental stages in which they are not normally found. This would have the effect of altering the level of branched chain amino acids in those cells. Overexpression of dihydroxyacid dehydratase may produce a greater accumulation of 2-oxo-3-methylvalerate and 2-oxoisovalerate. These two products are substrates for branched chain amino acid aminotransferase which will become the limiting factor to producing higher amounts of leucine, valine, and isoleucine. Overexpression of the 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase subunits will lead to a greater accumulation of leucine precursors, and ultimately to a greater amount of leucine in the cell.

Overexpression of the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase proteins of the instant invention may be accomplished by first constructing a chimeric gene in which the coding region is operably linked to a promoter capable of directing expression of a gene in the desired tissues at the desired stage of development. For reasons of convenience, the chimeric gene may comprise promoter sequences and translation leader sequences derived from the same genes. 3′ Non-coding sequences encoding transcription termination signals may also be provided. The instant chimeric gene may also comprise one or more introns in order to facilitate gene expression.

Plasmid vectors comprising the instant chimeric gene can then constructed. The choice of plasmid vector is dependent upon the method that will be used to transform host plants. The skilled artisan is well aware of the genetic elements that must be present on the plasmid vector in order to successfully transform, select and propagate host cells containing the chimeric gene. The skilled artisan will also recognize that different independent transformation events will result in different levels and patterns of expression (Jones et al., (1985) EMBO J. 4: 2411-2418; De Almeida et al., (1989) Mol. Gen. Genetics 218: 78-86), and thus that multiple events must be screened in order to obtain lines displaying the desired expression level and pattern. Such screening may be accomplished by Southern analysis of DNA, Northern analysis of mRNA expression, Western analysis of protein expression, or phenotypic analysis.

For some applications it may be useful to direct the instant branched chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes to different cellular compartments, or to facilitate its secretion from the cell. It is thus envisioned that the chimeric gene described above may be further supplemented by altering the coding sequence to encode dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase with appropriate intracellular targeting sequences such as transit sequences (Keegstra, K. (1989) Cell 56: 247-253), signal sequences or sequences encoding endoplasmic reticulum localization (Chrispeels, J. J., (1991) Ann. Rev. Plant Phys. Plant Mol. Biol. 42: 21-53), or nuclear localization signals (Raikhel, N. (1992) Plant Phys. 100: 1627-1632) added and/or with targeting sequences that are already present removed. While the references cited give examples of each of these, the list is not exhaustive and more targeting signals of utility may be discovered in the future.

It may also be desirable to reduce or eliminate expression of genes encoding dibydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in plants for some applications. In order to accomplish this, a chimeric gene designed for co-suppression of the instant amino acid biosynthetic enzymes can be constructed by linking a gene or gene fragment encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase to plant promoter sequences. Alternatively, a chimeric gene designed to express antisense RNA for all or part of the instant nucleic acid fragment can be constructed by linking the gene or gene fragment in reverse orientation to plant promoter sequences. Either the co-suppression or antisense chimeric genes could be introduced into plants via transformation wherein expression of the corresponding endogenous genes are reduced or eliminated.

The instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase (or portions thereof) may be produced in heterologous host cells, particularly in the cells of microbial hosts, and can be used to prepare antibodies to the these proteins by methods well known to those skilled in the art. The antibodies are useful for detecting dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in situ in cells or in vitro in cell extracts. Preferred heterologous host cells for production of the instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase are microbial hosts. Microbial expression systems and expression vectors containing regulatory sequences that direct high level expression of foreign proteins are well known to those skilled in the art. Any of these could be used to construct a chimeric gene for production of the instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase. This chimeric gene could then be introduced into appropriate microorganisms via transformation to provide high level expression of the encoded biosynthetic enzyme. An example of a vector for high level expression of the instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase in a bacterial host is provided (Example 9).

Additionally, the instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase can be used as a targets to facilitate design and/or identification of inhibitors of those enzymes that may be useful as herbicides. This is desirable because the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, and the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase described herein catalyze various steps in the biosynthesis and utilization of branched chain amino acids. Accordingly, inhibition of the activity of one or more of the enzymes described herein could lead to inhibition plant growth. Thus, the instant dihydroxyacid dehydratase, branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, and leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase could be appropriate for new herbicide discovery and design.

All or a substantial portion of the nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention may also be used as probes for genetically and physically mapping the genes that they are a part of, and as markers for traits linked to those genes. Such information may be useful in plant breeding in order to develop lines with desired phenotypes. For example, the instant nucleic acid fragments may be used as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers. Southern blots (Maniatis) of restriction-digested plant genomic DNA may be probed with the nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention. The resulting banding patterns may then be subjected to genetic analyses using computer programs such as MapMaker (Lander et at., (1987) Genomics 1: 174-181) in order to construct a genetic map. In addition, the nucleic acid fragments of the instant invention may be used to probe Southern blots containing restriction endonuclease-treated genomic DNAs of a set of individuals representing parent and progeny of a defined genetic cross. Segregation of the DNA polymorphisms is noted and used to calculate the position of the instant nucleic acid sequence in the genetic map previously obtained using this population (Botstein, D. et al., (1980) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 32: 314-331).

The production and use of plant gene-derived probes for use in genetic mapping is described in R. Bernatzky, R. and Tanksley, S. D. (1986) Plant Mol. Biol. Reporter 4(1): 37-41. Numerous publications describe genetic mapping of specific cDNA clones using the methodology outlined above or variations thereof. For example, F2 intercross populations, backcross populations, randomly mated populations, near isogenic lines, and other sets of individuals may be used for mapping. Such methodologies are well known to those skilled in the art.

Nucleic acid probes derived from the instant nucleic acid sequences may also be used for physical mapping (i.e., placement of sequences on physical maps; see Hoheisel, J. D., et al., In: Nonmammalian Genomic Analysis: A Practical Guide, Academic press 1996, pp. 319-346, and references cited therein).

In another embodiment, nucleic acid probes derived from the instant nucleic acid sequences may be used in direct fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) mapping (Trask, B. J. (1991) Trends Genet. 7: 149-154). Although current methods of FISH mapping favor use of large clones (several to several hundred KB; see Laan, M. et al. (1995) Genome Research 5: 13-20), improvements in sensitivity may allow performance of FISH mapping using shorter probes.

A variety of nucleic acid amplification-based methods of genetic and physical mapping may be carried out using the instant nucleic acid sequences. Examples include allele-specific amplification (Kazazian, H. H. (1989) J. Lab. Clin. Med. 114(2): 95-96), polymorphism of PCR-amplified fragments (CAPS; Sheffield, V. C. et al. (1993) Genomics 16: 325-332), allele-specific ligation (Landegren, U. et al. (1988) Science 241: 1077-1080), nucleotide extension reactions (Sokolov, B. P. (1990) Nucleic Acid Res. 18: 3671), Radiation Hybrid Mapping (Walter, M. A. et al. (1997) Nature Genetics 7: 22-28) and Happy Mapping (Dear, P. H. and Cook, P. R. (1989) Nucleic Acid Res. 17: 6795-6807). For these methods, the sequence of a nucleic acid fragment is used to design and produce primer pairs for use in the amplification reaction or in primer extension reactions. The design of such primers is well known to those skilled in the art. In methods employing PCR-based genetic mapping, it may be necessary to identify DNA sequence differences between the parents of the mapping cross in the region corresponding to the instant nucleic acid sequence. This, however, is generally not necessary for mapping methods.

Loss of function mutant phenotypes may be identified for the instant cDNA clones either by targeted gene disruption protocols or by identifying specific mutants for these genes contained in a maize population carrying mutations in all possible genes (Ballinger and Benzer, (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 86:9402; Koes et al., (1995) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 92:8149; Bensen et al., (1995) Plant Cell 7:75). The latter approach may be accomplished in two ways. First, short segments of the instant nucleic acid fragments may be used in polymerase chain reaction protocols in conjunction with a mutation tag sequence primer on DNAs prepared from a population of plants in which Mutator transposons or some other mutation-causing DNA element has been introduced (see Bensen, supra). The amplification of a specific DNA fragment with these primers indicates the insertion of the mutation tag element in or near the plant gene encoding the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase. Alternatively, the instant nucleic acid fragment may be used as a hybridization probe against PCR amplification products generated from the mutation population using the mutation tag sequence primer in conjunction with an arbitrary genomic site primer, such as that for a restriction enzyme site-anchored synthetic adaptor. With either method, a plant containing a mutation in the endogenous gene encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, a leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or a leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase can be identified and obtained. This mutant plant can then be used to determine or confirm the natural function of the dihydroxyacid dehydratase, the branched chain amino acid aminotransferase, the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, or the leuD subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase gene product.

EXAMPLES

The present invention is further defined in the following Examples, in which all parts and percentages are by weight and degrees are Celsius, unless otherwise stated. It should be understood that these Examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only. From the above discussion and these Examples, one skilled in the art can ascertain the essential characteristics of this invention, and without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, can make various changes and modifications of the invention to adapt it to various usages and conditions.

Example 1 Composition of cDNA Libraries; Isolation and Sequencing of cDNA Clones

cDNA libraries representing mRNAs from various corn, rice, soybean, and wheat tissues were prepared. The characteristics of the libraries are described below.

TABLE 2 cDNA Libraries from Corn, Rice, Soybean, and Wheat Library Tissue Clone cc71se-b Corn Callus Type II Tissue, Somatic Embryo Formed cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 cco1 Corn Cob of 67 Day Old Plants Grown in Green House cco1.pk0030.d2 cen1 Corn Endosperm 10 to 11 Days After Pollination cen1.pk0032.b1 cen3n Corn Endosperm 20 Days After Pollination* cen3n.pk0015.g3 cen3n.pk0060.h4 cen3n.pk0121.h11 cen6 Corn Developing Embryo 40 Days After Pollination cen6.pk0003.b5 cr1 Corn Root From 7 Day Old Seedlings cr1.pk0032.c4 cr1n Corn Root From 7 Day Old Seedlings* cr1n.pk0123.b7 cr1n.pk0153.e9 cta1n Corn Tassel* cta1n.pk0070.e7 cta1n.pk0077.c7 rl0n Rice 15 Day Old Leaf* rl0n.pk087.k16 rls12 Rice Leaf 15 Days After Germination, 12 hours after rls12.pk0001.c2 infection of strain Magaporthe grisea 4360-R-67 (AVR2- YAMO); Susceptible rls24 Rice Leaf 15 Days After Germination, 24 Hours After rls24.pk0025.f6 Infection of Strain Magaporthe grisea 4360-R-67 (AVR2- YAMO); Susceptible rls72 Rice Leaf 15 Days After Germination, 72 Hours After rls72.pk0014.a3 Infection of Strain Magaporthe grisea 4360-R-67 (AVR2- YAMO); Susceptible sdp3c Soybean Developing Pods (8-9 mm) sdp3c.pk008.k13 se3 Soybean Embryo, 17 Days After Flowering se3.pk0006.g4 ses8w Soybean Mature Embryo 8 Weeks After Subculture ses8w.pk0032.e9 ses9c Soybean Embryogenic Suspension ses9c.pk001.o8 sre Soybean Root Elongation Zone 4 to 5 Days After sre.pk0001.d1 Germination srm Soybean Root Meristem srm.pk0006.h5 srr1c Soybean 8-Day-Old Root srr1c.pk003.c2 srr2c Soybean 8-Day-Old Root srr2c.pk003.d20 wkm1c Wheat Kernel Malted 55 Hours at 22 Degrees Celsius wkm1c.pk0004.c7 wkm2c Wheat Kernel Malted 175 Hours at 4 Degrees Celsius wkm2c.pk005.c12 wl1n Wheat Leaf From 7 Day Old Seedling* wl1n.pk0048.a6 wl1n.pk0123.c11 wlm96 Wheat Seedlings 96 Hours After Inoculation With Erysiphe wlm96.pk027.n2 graminis f. sp tritici wre1n Wheat Root From 7 Day Old Etiolated Seedling* wre1n.pk0045.b10 *These libraries were normalized essentially as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,482,845, incorporated herein by reference

cDNA libraries were prepared in Uni-ZAP™ XR vectors according to the manufacturer's protocol (Stratagene Cloning Systems, La Jolla, Calif.). Conversion of the Uni-ZAP™ XR libraries into plasmid libraries was accomplished according to the protocol provided by Stratagene. Upon conversion, cDNA inserts were contained in the plasmid vector pBluescript. cDNA inserts from randomly picked bacterial colonies containing recombinant pBluescript plasmids were amplified via polymerase chain reaction using primers specific for vector sequences flanking the inserted cDNA sequences or plasmid DNA was prepared from cultured bacterial cells. Amplified insert DNAs or plasmid DNAs were sequenced in dye-primer sequencing reactions to generate partial cDNA sequences (expressed sequence tags or “ESTs”; see Adams, M. D. et al., (1991) Science 252:1651). The resulting ESTs were analyzed using a Perkin Elmer Model 377 fluorescent sequencer.

Example 2 Identification of cDNA Clones

ESTs encoding branched chain biosynthetic enzymes were identified by conducting BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool; Altschul, S. F., et al., (1993) J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410 searches for similarity to sequences contained in the BLAST “nr” database (comprising all non-redundant GenBank CDS translations, sequences derived from the 3-dimensional structure Brookhaven Protein Data Bank, the last major release of the SWISS-PROT protein sequence database, EMBL, and DDBJ databases). The cDNA sequences obtained in Example 1 were analyzed for similarity to all publicly available DNA sequences contained in the “nr” database using the BLASTN algorithm provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The DNA sequences were translated in all reading frames and compared for similarity to all publicly available protein sequences contained in the “nr” database using the BLASTX algorithm (Gish, W. and States, D. J. (1993) Nature Genetics 3:266-272) provided by the NCBI. For convenience, the P-value (probability) of observing a match of a cDNA sequence to a sequence contained in the searched databases merely by chance as calculated by BLAST are reported herein as “PLOg” values, which represent the negative of the logarithm of the reported P-value. Accordingly, the greater the pLog value, the greater the likelihood that the cDNA sequence and the BLAST “hit” represent homologous proteins.

Example 3 Characterization of cDNA Clones Encoding Dihydroxyacid Dehydratase

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from clones se3.pk0006.g4, ses4d.pk0014.h5, ss1.pk0021.g5, sre.pk0012.h2, ses8w.pk0010.e5, se4.03a05, ssm.pk0004.h12, ssm.pk0033.d5, cr1.pk0032.c4, cen1.pk0015.f5, cen3n.pk0071.h6, cen3n.pk0031.g9 and wre1n.pk0007.a4 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to dihydroxyacid dehydratases from several organisms, including Lactococcus lactis (SWISS-PROT Accession No. Q02139, NCBI gi Accession No. 400054) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SWISS-PROT Accession No. P39522, NCBI gi Accession No. 1170543). The BLAST results for each of these ESTs are shown in Table 3:

TABLE 3 BLAST Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to Dihydroxyacid Dehydratases BLAST pLog Score Q02139 P39522 Clone (Lactococcus lactis) (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cen1.pk0015.f5 41.03 21.43 cen3n.pk0031.g9 38.89 40.35 cen3n.pk0071.h6 32.62 34.55 cr1.pk0032.c4 5.64 8.33 se3.pk0006.g4 26.64 37.80 se4.03a05 12.41 19.03 ses4d.pk0014.h5 4.89 na* ses8w.pk0010.e5 37.34 33.74 sre.pk0012.h2 41.54 37.96 ssl.pk0021.g5 38.66 33.92 ssm.pk0004.h12 5.74 10.82 ssm.pk0033.d5 23.30 28.59 wre1n.pk0007.a4 6.39 7.29 *na = no data available

The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1.pk0032.c4 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:1. This sequence encodes a full-length dihydroxyacid dehydratase, and includes the sequences from clones cen1.pk0015.f5, cen3n.pk0031.g9, and cen3n.pk0071.h6. The deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:2. The amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 was evaluated by BLASTP, yielding a pLog value larger than 254 versus the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequence.

A sequence encoding a full-length dihydroxyacid dehydratase was formed by assembling a contig with the nucleotides of the entire cDNA insert in clone se3.pk0006.g4 and a portion of the cDNA insert from clone ses9c.pk001.o8. This sequence includes the nucleotide sequences from clones se4.03a05, ses4d.pk0014.h5, ses8w.pk0010.e5, sre.pk0012.h2, ss1.pk0021.g5, and ssm.pk0004.h12. The nucleotide sequence of this contig is shown in SEQ ID NO:3; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:4. The amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4 was evaluated by BLASTP, yielding a pLog value larger than 254 versus the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequence.

The sequence of a portion of the cDNA insert from clone wkm2c.pk005.c12 was determined and found to contain the sequence from clone wre1n.pk0007.a4. The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequence from clone wkm2c.pk005.c12 resulted in a pLog value of 49 against the Saccharomyces cerevisiae dihydroxyacid dehydratase and a pLog value of 47 against the Lactococcus lactis sequence. The sequence for clone wkm2c.pk005.c12 is shown in SEQ ID NO:5; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:6.

FIG. 2 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:2, 4, and 6 and the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequence (SEQ ID NO:7). The data in Table 4 represents a calculation of the percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:2, 4, and 6 and the Saccharomyces cerevisiae dihydroxyacid dehydratase sequence.

TABLE 4 Percent Identity of Amino Acid Sequences Deduced From the Nucleotide Sequences of cDNA Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to Dihydroxyacid Dehydratase Percent Identity to NCBI gi Accession No. 1170543 Clone SEQ ID NO. (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cr1.pk0032.c4 2 58.5 Contig of: 4 58.8 se3.pk0006.g4 ses9c.pk001.o8 wkm2c.pk005.c12 6 55.8

Sequence alignments and percent identity calculations were performed using the Megalign program of the LASARGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wis.). Multiple alignment of the sequences was performed using the Clustal method of alignment (Higgins, D. G. and Sharp, P. M. (1989) CABIOS. 5: 151-153) using the default parameters (GAP PENALTY=10, GAP LENGHT PENALTY=10). Sequence percent identity calculations were performed by the Jotun Hein method (Hein. J. J. (1990) Meth. Enz. 183: 626-645). Sequence alignments and BLAST scores and probabilities indicate that the instant nucleic acid fragments encode entire corn and soybean dihydroxyacid dehydratase and a portion of a wheat dihydroxyacid dehydratase. These sequences represent the first plant sequences encoding a dihydroxyacid dehydratase enzyme.

Example 4 Characterization of cDNA Clones Encoding Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferases

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences of clones ses8w.pk0032.e9, cco1.pk0030.d2 and cen6.pk0003.b5 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to putative branched chain amino acid aminotransferases from Bacillus subtilis (SWISS-PROT Accession No. P39576, NCBI gi Accession No. 1176947) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (SWISS-PROT Accession No. Q10399, NCBI gi Accession No. 1708468). A further BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from clones cc71se-b.pk0008.b5, cta1n.pk0070.e7, rls24.pk0025.f6, and wlm96.pk027.n2 also revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to putative branched chain amino acid aminotransferases from Bacillus subtilis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from clones rls72.pk0014.a3, sre.pk0001.d1, srr2c.pk003.d20, and w11n.pk0123.c11 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to putative branched chain amino acid aminotransferase from Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 3122287). The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from clones cco1.pk0030.d2, and wkm1c.pk0004.c7 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to branched chain amino acid aminotransferase from Escherichia coli (NCBI gi Accession No. 124380). The BLASTX results for each of these sequences are shown in Table 5:

TABLE 5 BLASTX Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferases Accession BLAST Accession BLAST Clone No. pLog Score No. pLog Score cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 1176947 16.22 1708468 18.10 cen6.pk0003.b5 1176947 50.40 1708468 34.30 cta1n.pk0070.e7 1176947 12.00 1708468 10.50 rls24.pk0025.f6 1176947 66.00 1708468 56.70 ses8w.pk0032.e9 1176947 41.70 1708468 39.70 wlm96.pk027.n2 1176947 88.40 1708468 67.00 rls72.pk0014.a3 3122287 9.00 sre.pk0001.d1 3122287 24.00 srr2c.pk003.d20 3122287 21.70 wl1n.pk0123.c11 3122287 9.40 cco1.pk0030.d2 124380 26.70 wkm1c.pk0004.c7 124380 19.05

The sequence of a portion of the cDNA insert in clone cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:8; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:9. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone cen6.pk0003.b5 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:10; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:11. The sequence of a portion of the cDNA insert in clone cta1n.pk0070.e7 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:12; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:13. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone rls24.pk0025.f6 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:14; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:15. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone ses8w.pk0032.e9 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:16; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:17. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone wlm96.pk027.n2 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:18; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:19. The amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:15, SEQ ID NO:17, and SEQ ID NO:19 were evaluated by BLASTP revealing similarity to the branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase from Bacillus subtilis (NCBI gi Accession No. 1176947); the results of these analyses are shown in Table 6. FIG. 3 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 and the Bacillus subtilis sequence (SEQ ID NO:20).

The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone rls72.pk0014.a3 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:21; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:22. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone sre.pk0001.d1 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:23; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:24. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone srr2c.pk003.d20 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:25; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:26. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone w11n.pk0123.c11 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:27; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:28. The amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO:22, SEQ ID NO:24, SEQ ID NO:26, and SEQ ID NO:28, were evaluated by BLASTP revealing similarity to the branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase from Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 3122287), the results of these analyses are shown in Table 6. FIG. 4 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:22, 24, 26, and 28 and the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence (SEQ ID NO:29).

The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone cco1.pk0030.d2 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:30; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:31. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone wkm1c.pk0004.c7 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:32; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:33. The amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO:31, and SEQ ID NO:33 were evaluated by BLASTP revealing similarity to the branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase from Escherichia coli (NCBI gi Accession No. 124380), the results of these analyses are shown in Table 6. FIG. 5 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:31, and 33 and the Escherichia coli sequence (SEQ ID NO:34).

TABLE 6 BLASTP Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferases Clone Accession No. BLASTP pLog Score cen6.pk0003.b5 1176947 45.00 rls24.pk0025.f6 1176947 63.00 ses8w.pk0032.e9 1176947 35.00 wlm96.pk027.n2 1176947 77.22 rls72.pk0014.a3 3122287 11.70 sre.pk0001.d1 3122287 24.22 srr2c.pk003.d20 3122287 22.52 wl1n.pk0123.c11 3122287 12.40 cco1.pk0030.d2 124380 31.00 wkm1c.pk0004.c7 124380 21.00

The data in Table 7 represents a calculation of the percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 and the Bacillus subtilis sequence; a percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:22, 24, 26, and 28 and the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence; and a percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:31, and 33 and the Escherichia coli sequence.

TABLE 7 Percent Identity of Amino Acid Sequences Deduced From the Nucleotide Sequences of cDNA Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferases Clone SEQ ID NO. Accession No. Percent Identity cc71se-b.pk0008.b5 9 1176947 11.3 cen6.pk0003.b5 11 1176947 45.2 cta1n.pk0070.e7 13 1176947 41.1 rls24.pk0025.f6 15 1176947 40.6 ses8w.pk0032.e9 17 1176947 12.2 wlm96.pk027.n2 19 1176947 44.7 rls72.pk0014.a3 22 3122287 25.5 sre.pk0001.d1 24 3122287 30.7 srr2c.pk003.d20 26 3122287 26.3 wl1n.pk0123.c11 28 3122287 30.6 cco1.pk0030.d2 31 124380 32.7 wkm1c.pk0004.c7 33 124380 30.8

Sequence alignments and percent identity calculations were performed using the Megalign program of the LASARGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wis.). Multiple alignment of the sequences was performed using the Clustal method of alignment (Higgins, D. G. and Sharp, P. M. (1989) CABIOS. 5: 151-153) using the default parameters (GAP PENALTY=10, GAP LENGHT PENALTY=10). Sequence percent identity calculations were performed by the Jotun Hein method (Hein. J. J. (1990) Meth. Enz. 183: 626-645).

Sequence alignments and BLAST scores and probabilities indicate that the instant nucleic acid fragments encode three distinct classes of branched-chain amino acid aminotransferases. Fragments from corn, rice, soybean, and wheat are similar to the Bacillus subtilis putative branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase, full-length soybean, and fragments from rice, and wheat similar to the Methanococcus jannaschii enzyme, and a full-length corn, and most of a wheat branched chain amino acid aminotransferase similar to the Escherichia coli enzyme. These sequences represent the first plant sequences encoding branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase enzymes.

Example 5 Characterization of cDNA Clones Encoding Large Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from clones srm.pk0006.h5, ceb3.pk0001.b5, cen1.pk0032.b1, cen3n.pk0015.g3 and cen3n.pk0060.h4 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to the large subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, which is encoded by the gene designated leuC in E. coli and Salmonella typhumurium. Similarity of the proteins is greatest to enzymes encoded by GenBank Accession No. U67499 and GenBank Accession No. U67543 from Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 3219823, and 3122347, respectively). Both of these GenBank Accessions show strong similarity to the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, but have been mis-labelled as aconitase and homoaconitase. Neither aconitase nor homoaconitase are expected to be present in Methanococcus jannaschii (see Selkov et al. (1997) Gene 197:GC11-GC26; this paper can be accessed via the World Wide Web at http://www.cme.msu.edu/wit/Doc/mj_recon.html). The BLAST results for each of these ESTs are shown in Table 8:

TABLE 8 BLAST Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuC Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes BLAST pLog Score Clone U67499 U67543 srm.pk0006.h5 6.92 8.80 ceb3.pk0001.b5 52.08 23.68 cen1.pk0032.b1 44.89 43.01 cen3n.pk0015.g3 12.24 11.92 cen3n.pk0060.h4 14.17 14.74

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from the contig assembled of clones cen1.pk0032.b1, cta1n.pk0077.c7, cen3n.pk0015.g3, cen3n.pk0060.h4, and cen3n.pk0121.h11 (the clone ceb3.pk0001.b5 is included in the contig), the nucleotide sequences from clones cr1n.pk0153.e9, r10n.pk087.k16, and wre1n.pk0045.b10, and the nucleotide sequences from the contig assembled of clones sdp3c.pk008.k13 and srm.pk0006.h5 revealed similarity of the same proteins. The BLAST results for each of these sequences are shown in Table 9:

TABLE 9 BLAST Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuC Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes BLASTX pLog Score NCBI gi Accession No. NCBI gi Accession No. Clone 3219823 3122347 Contig of: 91.22 66.30 cen1.pk0032.b1 cta1n.pk0077.c7 cen3n.pk0015.g3 cen3n.pk0060.h4 cen3n.pk0121.h11 cr1n.pk0153.e9 94.22 69.22 rl0n.pk087.k16 44.00 27.40 Contig of: 28.15 25.40 sdp3c.pk008.k13 srm.pk0006.h5 wre1n.pk0045.b10 12.00 11.52

The sequence of the contig assembled of the cDNA insert in clones cen1.pk0032.b1, cta1n.pk0077.c7, cen3n.pk0015.g3, cen3n.pk0060.h4, and cen3n.pk0121.h11 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:35; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:36. The amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:36 was evaluated by BLASTP, yielding a pLog value of 93.00 versus the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence (NCBI gi Accession No. 3219823). The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1n.pk0153.e9 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:37; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:38. The amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:38 was evaluated by BLASTP, yielding a pLog value of 91.00 versus the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence (NCBI gi Accession No. 3219823). The sequence of a portion of the cDNA insert in clone r10n.pk087.k16 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:39; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:40. The sequence of the contig assembled of the cDNA insert in clones sdp3c.pk008.k13 and srm.pk0006.h5 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:41; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:42. The sequence of a portion of the cDNA insert in clone wre1n.pk0045.b10 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:43; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:44.

FIG. 6 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 and the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence (SEQ ID NO:45). The data in Table 10 represents a calculation of the percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:36, 38, 40, 42, and 44 and the Methanococcus jannaschii sequence.

TABLE 10 Percent Identity of Amino Acid Sequences Deduced From the Nucleotide Sequences of cDNA Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuC Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes Percent Identity to Clone SEQ ID NO. NCBI gi Accession No. 3219823 Contig of: 36 45.8 cen1.pk0032.b1 cta1n.pk0077.c7 cen3n.pk0015.g3 cen3n.pk0060.h4 cen3n.pk0121.h11 cr1n.pk0153.e9 38 45.6 rl0n.pk087.k16 40 55.5 Contig of: 42 15.4 sdp3c.pk008.k13 srm.pk0006.h5 wre1n.pk0045.b10 44 16.5

Sequence alignments and percent identity calculations were performed using the Megalign program of the LASARGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wis.). Multiple alignment of the sequences was performed using the Clustal method of alignment (Higgins, D. G. and Sharp, P. M. (1989) CABIOS. 5: 151 -153) using the default parameters (GAP PENALTY=10, GAP LENGHT PENALTY=10). Sequence percent identity calculations were performed by the Jotun Hein method (Hein, J. J. (1990) Meth. Enz. 183: 626-645).

Sequence alignments and BLAST scores and probabilities indicate that the instant nucleic acid fragments encode two distinct entire corn the leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratases, a central fragment of a rice leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, and the C-terminal half of a soybean, and a wheat leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase. These sequences represent the first plant sequences encoding leuC subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase enzyme.

Example 6 Characterization of cDNA Clones Encoding the leuD Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences from EST clones cr1n.pk0123.b7 and rls12.pk0001.c2 revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to the small subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase enzymes from several organisms, including Methanococcus jannaschii (GenBank Accession No. U67568) and Lactococcus lactis (SWISS-PROT Accession No. Q02144). This subunit is encoded by the gene designated leuD in E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium. The BLAST results for each of these ESTs are shown in Table 11:

TABLE 11 BLAST Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuD Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes BLAST pLog Score Clone U67568 Q02144 crln.pk0123.b7 3.70 1.80 rls12.pk0001.c2 5.14 3.96

The BLASTX search using the nucleotide sequences of the entire insert from clones cr1n.pk0123.b7, rls12.pk0001.c2, srr1c.pk003.c2, and w11n.pk0048.a6 also revealed similarity of the proteins encoded by the cDNAs to the small subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase enzymes from several organisms, including Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 3122345) and Lactococcus lactis (NCBI gi Accession No. 400187). The BLAST results for each of these sequences are shown in Table 12:

TABLE 12 BLAST Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuD Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes BLAST pLog Score NCBI gi Accession No. NCBI gi Accession No. Clone 3122345 400187 crln.pk0123.b7 16.70 12.30 rls12.pk0001.c2 16.40 11.30 srrlc.pk003.c2 18.70 11.52 wlln.pk0048.a6 17.05 12.22

The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone cr1n.pk0123.b7 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:46; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:47. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone rls12.pk0001.c2 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:48; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:49. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone srr1c.pk003.c2 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:50; the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:51. The sequence of the entire cDNA insert in clone w11n.pk0048.a6 was determined and is shown in SEQ ID NO:52 the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA is shown in SEQ ID NO:53. The amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:47, 49, 51, and 53 were evaluated by BLASTP, yielding the pLog values shown in Table 13 versus the Methanococcus jannaschii (NCBI gi Accession No. 3122345) and Lactococcus lactis (NCBI gi Accession No. 400187) sequences.

TABLE 13 BLASTP Results for Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuD Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes BLASTP pLog Score NCBI gi Accession No. NCBI gi Accession No. Clone 3122345 400187 crln.pk0123.b7 16.70 12.30 rls12.pk0001.c2 16.40 11.30 srrlc.pk003.c2 18.70 11.52 wlln.pk0048.a6 17.05 12.22

FIG. 7 presents an alignment of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:47, 49, 51, and 53 and the Lactococcus lactis sequence (SEQ ID NO:54). The data in Table 14 represents a calculation of the percent identity of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:47, 49, 51, and 53 and the Lactococcus lactis sequence.

TABLE 14 Percent Identity of Amino Acid Sequences Deduced From the Nucleotide Sequences of cDNA Clones Encoding Polypeptides Homologous to the leuD Protein Subunit of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydratase Enzymes Percent Identity to Clone SEQ ID NO. 400187 crln.pk0123.b7 47 35.8 rls12.pk0001.c2 49 34.5 srrlc.pk003.c2 51 38.0 wlln.pk0048.a6 53 36.0

Sequence alignments and percent identity calculations were performed using the Megalign program of the LASARGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wis.). Multiple alignment of the sequences was performed using the Clustal method of alignment (Higgins, D. G. and Sharp, P. M. (1989) CABIOS. 5: 151-153) using the default parameters (GAP PENALTY=10, GAP LENGHT PENALTY=10). Sequence percent identity calculations were performed by the Jotun Hein method (Hein, J. J. (1990) Meth. Enz. 183: 626-645).

Sequence alignments and BLAST scores and probabilities indicate that the instant nucleic acid fragments encode entire corn, rice, soybean, and wheat leuD protein subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase enzymes. These sequences represent the first plant sequences encoding leuD protein subunit of 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase.

Example 7 Expression of Chimeric Genes in Monocot Cells

A chimeric gene comprising a cDNA encoding a branched-chain biosynthetic enzyme in sense orientation with respect to the maize 27 kD zein promoter that is located 5′ to the cDNA fragment, and the 10 kD zein 3′ end that is located 3′ to the cDNA fragment, can be constructed. The cDNA fragment of this gene may be generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the cDNA clone using appropriate oligonucleotide primers. Cloning sites (NcoI or SmaI) can be incorporated into the oligonucleotides to provide proper orientation of the DNA fragment when inserted into the digested vector pML103 as described below. Amplification is then performed in a standard PCR. The amplified DNA is then digested with restriction enzymes NcoI and SmaI and fractionated on an agarose gel. The appropriate band can be isolated from the gel and combined with a 4.9 kb NcoI-SmaI fragment of the plasmid pML 103. Plasmid pML103 has been deposited under the terms of the Budapest Treaty at ATCC (American Type Culture Collection, 10801 University Blvd., Manassas, Va. 20110-2209), and bears accession number ATCC 97366. The DNA segment from pML103 contains a 1.05 kb SalI-NcoI promoter fragment of the maize 27 kD zein gene and a 0.96 kb SmaI-SalI fragment from the 3′ end of the maize 10 kD zein gene in the vector pGem9Zf(+) (Promega). Vector and insert DNA can be ligated at 15° C. overnight, essentially as described (Maniatis). The ligated DNA may then be used to transform E. coli XL1-Blue (Epicurian Coli XL-1 Blue™; Stratagene). Bacterial transformants can be screened by restriction enzyme digestion of plasmid DNA and limited nucleotide sequence analysis using the dideoxy chain termination method (Sequenase™ DNA Sequencing Kit; U.S. Biochemical). The resulting plasmid construct would comprise a chimeric gene encoding, in the 5′ to 3′ direction, the maize 27 kD zein promoter, a cDNA fragment encoding a branched-chain biosynthetic enzyme, and the 10 kD zein 3′ region.

The chimeric gene described above can then be introduced into corn cells by the following procedure. Immature corn embryos can be dissected from developing caryopses derived from crosses of the inbred corn lines H99 and LH132. The embryos are isolated 10 to 11 days after pollination when they are 1.0 to 1.5 mm long. The embryos are then placed with the axis-side facing down and in contact with agarose-solidified N6 medium (Chu et al., (1975) Sci. Sin. Peking 18: 659-668). The embryos are kept in the dark at 27° C. Friable embryogenic callus consisting of undifferentiated masses of cells with somatic proembryoids and embryoids borne on suspensor structures proliferates from the scutellum of these immature embryos. The embryogenic callus isolated from the primary explant can be cultured on N6 medium and sub-cultured on this medium every 2 to 3 weeks.

The plasmid, p35S/Ac (obtained from Dr. Peter Eckes, Hoechst Ag, Frankfurt, Germany) may be used in transformation experiments in order to provide for a selectable marker. This plasmid contains the Pat gene (see European Patent Publication 0 242 236) which encodes phosphinothricin acetyl transferase (PAT). The enzyme PAT confers resistance to herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitors such as phosphinothricin. The pat gene in p35S/Ac is under the control of the 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (Odell et al. (1985) Nature 313: 810-812) and the 3′ region of the nopaline synthase gene from the T-DNA of the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The particle bombardment method (Klein et al., (1987) Nature 327: 70-73) may be used to transfer genes to the callus culture cells. According to this method, gold particles (1 μm in diameter) are coated with DNA using the following technique. Ten μg of plasmid DNAs are added to 50 μL of a suspension of gold particles (60 mg per mL). Calcium chloride (50 μL of a 2.5 M solution) and spermidine free base (20 μL of a 1.0 M solution) are added to the particles. The suspension is vortexed during the addition of these solutions. After 10 minutes, the tubes are briefly centrifuged (5 sec at 15,000 rpm) and the supernatant removed. The particles are resuspended in 200 μL of absolute ethanol, centrifuged again and the supernatant removed. The ethanol rinse is performed again and the particles resuspended in a final volume of 30 μL of ethanol. An aliquot (5 μL) of the DNA-coated gold particles can be placed in the center of a Kapton™ flying disc (Bio-Rad Labs). The particles are then accelerated into the corn tissue with a Biolistic™ PDS-1000/He (Bio-Rad Instruments, Hercules Calif.), using a helium pressure of 1000 psi, a gap distance of 0.5 cm and a flying distance of 1.0 cm.

For bombardment, the embryogenic tissue is placed on filter paper over agarose-solidified N6 medium. The tissue is arranged as a thin lawn and covered a circular area of about 5 cm in diameter. The petri dish containing the tissue can be placed in the chamber of the PDS-1000/He approximately 8 cm from the stopping screen. The air in the chamber is then evacuated to a vacuum of 28 inches of Hg. The macrocarrier is accelerated with a helium shock wave using a rupture membrane that bursts when the He pressure in the shock tube reaches 1000 psi.

Seven days after bombardment the tissue can be transferred to N6 medium that contains gluphosinate (2 mg per liter) and lacks casein or proline. The tissue continues to grow slowly on this medium. After an additional 2 weeks the tissue can be transferred to fresh N6 medium containing gluphosinate. After 6 weeks, areas of about 1 cm in diameter of actively growing callus can be identified on some of the plates containing the gluphosinate-supplemented medium. These calli may continue to grow when sub-cultured on the selective medium.

Plants can be regenerated from the transgenic callus by first transferring clusters of tissue to N6 medium supplemented with 0.2 mg per liter of 2,4-D. After two weeks the tissue can be transferred to regeneration medium (Fromm et al., (1990) Bio/Technology 8: 833-839).

Example 8 Expression of Chimeric Genes in Dicot Cells

A seed-specific expression cassette composed of the promoter and transcription terminator from the gene encoding the P subunit of the seed storage protein phaseolin from the bean Phaseolus vulgaris (Doyle et al. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261: 9228-9238) can be used for expression of the instant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes in transformed soybean. The phaseolin cassette includes about 500 nucleotides upstream (5′) from the translation initiation codon and about 1650 nucleotides downstream (3′) from the translation stop codon of phaseolin. Between the 5′ and 3′ regions are the unique restriction endonuclease sites Nco I (which includes the ATG translation initiation codon), Sma I, Kpn I and Xba I. The entire cassette is flanked by Hind III sites.

The cDNA fragment of this gene may be generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the cDNA clone using appropriate oligonucleotide primers. Cloning sites can be incorporated into the oligonucleotides to provide proper orientation of the DNA fragment when inserted into the expression vector. Amplification is then performed as described above, and the isolated fragment is inserted into a pUC18 vector carrying the seed expression cassette.

Soybean embryos may then be transformed with the expression vector comprising sequences encoding a branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme. To induce somatic embryos, cotyledons, 3-5 mm in length dissected from surface sterilized, immature seeds of the soybean cultivar A2872, can be cultured in the light or dark at 26° C. on an appropriate agar medium for 6-10 weeks. Somatic embryos which produce secondary embryos are then excised and placed into a suitable liquid medium. After repeated selection for clusters of somatic embryos which multiplied as early, globular staged embryos, the suspensions are maintained as described below.

Soybean embryogenic suspension cultures can maintained in 35 mL liquid media on a rotary shaker, 150 rpm, at 26° C. with florescent lights on a 16:8 hour day/night schedule. Cultures are subcultured every two weeks by inoculating approximately 35 mg of tissue into 35 mL of liquid medium.

Soybean embryogenic suspension cultures may then be transformed by the method of particle gun bombardment (Kline et al. (1987) Nature (London) 327:70, U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,050). A Du Pont Biolistic™ PDS1000/HE instrument (helium retrofit) can be used for these transformations.

A selectable marker gene which can be used to facilitate soybean transformation is a chimeric gene composed of the 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (Odell et al. (1985) Nature 313: 810-812), the hygromycin phosphotransferase gene from plasmid pJR225 (from E. coli; Gritz et al. (1983) Gene 25: 179-188) and the 3′ region of the nopaline synthase gene from the T-DNA of the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The seed expression cassette comprising the phaseolin 5′ region, the fragment encoding the branched-chain amino acid enzyme and the phaseolin 3′ region can be isolated as a restriction fragment. This fragment can then be inserted into a unique restriction site of the vector carrying the marker gene.

To 50 μL of a 60 mg/mL 1 μm gold particle suspension is added (in order): 5 μL DNA (1 μg/μL), 20 μl spermidine (0.1 M), and 50 μL CaCl₂ (2.5 M). The particle preparation is then agitated for three minutes, spun in a microfuge for 10 seconds and the supernatant removed. The DNA-coated particles are then washed once in 400 μL 70% ethanol and resuspended in 40 μL of anhydrous ethanol. The DNA/particle suspension can be sonicated three times for one second each. Five μL of the DNA-coated gold particles are then loaded on each macro carrier disk.

Approximately 300-400 mg of a two-week-old suspension culture is placed in an empty 60×15 mm petri dish and the residual liquid removed from the tissue with a pipette. For each transformation experiment, approximately 5-10 plates of tissue are normally bombarded. Membrane rupture pressure is set at 1100 psi and the chamber is evacuated to a vacuum of 28 inches mercury. The tissue is placed approximately 3.5 inches away from the retaining screen and bombarded three times. Following bombardment, the tissue can be divided in half and placed back into liquid and cultured as described above.

Five to seven days post bombardment, the liquid media may be exchanged with fresh media, and eleven to twelve days post bombardment with fresh media containing 50 mg/mL hygromycin. This selective media can be refreshed weekly. Seven to eight weeks post bombardment, green, transformed tissue may be observed growing from untransformed, necrotic embryogenic clusters. Isolated green tissue is removed and inoculated into individual flasks to generate new, clonally propagated, transformed embryogenic suspension cultures. Each new line may be treated as an independent transformation event. These suspensions can then be subcultured and maintained as clusters of immature embryos or regenerated into whole plants by maturation and germination of individual somatic embryos.

Example 9 Expression of Chimeric Genes in Microbial Cells

The cDNAs encoding the instant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme can be inserted into the T7 E. coli expression vector pBT430. This vector is a derivative of pET-3a (Rosenberg et al. (1987) Gene 56: 125-135) which employs the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase/T7 promoter system. Plasmid pBT430 was constructed by first destroying the EcoR I and Hind III sites in pET-3a at their original positions. An oligonucleotide adaptor containing EcoR I and Hind III sites was inserted at the BamH I site of pET-3a. This created pET-3aM with additional unique cloning sites for insertion of genes into the expression vector. Then, the Nde I site at the position of translation initiation was converted to an Nco I site using oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. The DNA sequence of pET-3aM in this region, 5′-CATATGG, was converted to 5′-CCCATGG in pBT430.

Plasmid DNA containing a cDNA may be appropriately digested to release a nucleic acid fragment encoding the protein. This fragment may then be purified on a 1% NuSieve GTG™ low melting agarose gel (FMC). Buffer and agarose contain 10 μg/ml ethidium bromide for visualization of the DNA fragment. The fragment can then be purified from the agarose gel by digestion with GELase™ (Epicentre Technologies) according to the manufacturer's instructions, ethanol precipitated, dried and resuspended in 20 μL of water. Appropriate oligonucleotide adapters may be ligated to the fragment using T4 DNA ligase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, Mass.). The fragment containing the ligated adapters can be purified from the excess adapters using low melting agarose as described above. The vector pBT430 is digested, dephosphorylated with alkaline phosphatase (NEB) and deproteinized with phenol/chloroform as described above. The prepared vector pBT430 and fragment can then be ligated at 16° C. for 15 hours followed by transformation into DH5 electrocompetent cells (GIBCO BRL). Transformants can be selected on agar plates containing LB media and 100 μg/mL ampicillin. Transformants containing the gene encoding the branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme are then screened for the correct orientation with respect to the T7 promoter by restriction enzyme analysis.

For high level expression, a plasmid clone with the cDNA insert in the correct orientation relative to the T7 promoter can be transformed into E. coli strain BL21(DE3) (Studier et al. (1986) J. Mol. Biol. 189: 113-130). Cultures are grown in LB medium containing ampicillin (100 mg/L) at 25° C. At an optical density at 600 nm of approximately 1, IPTG (isopropylthio-β-galactoside, the inducer) can be added to a final concentration of 0.4 mM and incubation can be continued for 3 h at 25°. Cells are then harvested by centrifugation and re-suspended in 50 μL of 50 mM Tris-HCl at pH 8.0 containing 0.1 mM DTT and 0.2 mM phenyl methylsulfonyl fluoride. A small amount of 1 mm glass beads can be added and the mixture sonicated 3 times for about 5 seconds each time with a microprobe sonicator. The mixture is centrifuged and the protein concentration of the supernatant determined. One μg of protein from the soluble fraction of the culture can be separated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Gels can be observed for protein bands migrating at the expected molecular weight.

Example 10 Evaluating Compounds for Their Ability to Inhibit the Activity of a Plant Branched Chain Amino Acid Biosynthetic Enzyme

The branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes described herein may be produced using any number of methods known to those skilled in the art. Such methods include, but are not limited to, expression in bacteria as described in Example 9, or expression in eukaryotic cell culture, in planta, and using viral expression systems in suitably infected organisms or cell lines. The instant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes may be expressed either as mature forms of the proteins as observed in vivo or as fusion proteins by covalent attachment to a variety of enzymes, proteins or affinity tags. Common fusion protein partners include glutathione S-transferase (“GST”), thioredoxin (“Trx”), maltose binding protein, and C- and/or N-terminal hexahistidine polypeptide (“(His)₆”). The fusion proteins may be engineered with a protease recognition site at the fusion point so that fusion partners can be separated by protease digestion to yield intact mature enzyme. Examples of such proteases include thrombin, enterokinase and factor Xa. However, any protease can be used which specifically cleaves the peptide connecting the fusion protein and the enzyme.

Purification of the instant branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme, if desired, may utilize any number of separation technologies familiar to those skilled in the art of protein purification. Examples of such methods include, but are not limited to, homogenization, filtration, centrifugation, heat denaturation, ammonium sulfate precipitation, desalting, pH precipitation, ion exchange chromatography, hydrophobic interaction chromatography and affinity chromatography, wherein the affinity ligand represents a substrate, substrate analog or inhibitor. When the branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes are expressed as fusion proteins, the purification protocol may include the use of an affinity resin which is specific for the fusion protein tag attached to the expressed enzyme or an affinity resin containing ligands which are specific for the enzyme. For example, a branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme may be expressed as a fusion protein coupled to the C-terminus of thioredoxin. In addition, a (His)₆ peptide may be engineered into the N-terminus of the fused thioredoxin moiety to afford additional opportunities for affinity purification. Other suitable affinity resins could be synthesized by linking the appropriate ligands to any suitable resin such as Sepharose-4B. In an alternate embodiment, a thioredoxin fusion protein may be eluted using dithiothreitol; however, elution may be accomplished using other reagents which interact to displace the thioredoxin from the resin. These reagents include β-mercaptoethanol or other reduced thiol. The eluted fusion protein may be subjected to further purification by traditional means as stated above, if desired. Proteolytic cleavage of the thioredoxin fusion protein and the enzyme may be accomplished after the fusion protein is purified or while the protein is still bound to the ThioBond™ affinity resin or other resin.

Crude, partially purified or purified enzyme, either alone or as a fusion protein, may be utilized in assays for the evaluation of compounds for their ability to inhibit enzymatic activation of the branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzymes disclosed herein. Assays may be conducted under well known experimental conditions which permit optimal enzymatic activity. Examples of assays for these enzymes can be found in Methods in Enzymology (1970) Vol. XVII, Part A, (Tabor and Tabor eds.) Academic Press, New York. Assays for branched-chain amino acid transferase are presented by Jenkins et al., pp 802-807, Aki et al., pp 807-811, and Aki et al., pp 811-814 of the above volume. An assay for dihyroxyacid dehydratase is presented by Kinitani et al., pp 755-764. Assays for isopropylmalate dehydratase (which is refered to as isopropylmalate isomerase) are presented by Gross, pp 786-790, and by Cho-Chung et al., pp 782-785.

                   #             SEQUENCE LISTING <160> NUMBER OF SEQ ID NOS: 54 <210> SEQ ID NO 1 <211> LENGTH: 2135 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 1 cacagctcca cttgtccctg tccatccatt catcattccc cgtcactcca cc #aattcacc     60 acccaaaacc ctaaacccca ttccgtacct caacgccgcc gccgccgccg cc #gccgctgc    120 gatgcagtcc atggcgctca cctccccctc actcccggag gtcggccccg tt #tccggccg    180 ccgtctccag cgcatccgtg ccaccgcggt atccgacgag ctcaagctga ac #aagtacag    240 cgcgcgcatc acggagccca agtcgcaggg cgcctcgcag gccgtgctct at #ggggtcgg    300 gctcactgac gctgacctcc gcaagccgca ggtcggcgtc tcgtcggtgt gg #tacgaggg    360 gaacacctgc aacatgcacc tgctccgcct cgcggaggcc gtccgtgacg gc #gtccgcga    420 ggccggcatg gtcggcttcc ggtttaacac cgtcggtgtc agcgacgcca tt #tccatggg    480 cacccggggc atgtgctaca gcctccagtc ccgtgacctc atcgccgaca gc #atcgagac    540 cgtcatggga gcgcagcact acgacgccaa catttccata cctgggtgcg ac #aagaacat    600 gccaggtaca ataatggcaa tgggacggct taatcgacct agcataatga ta #tatggtgg    660 aactattaag cctggtcact ttcagggcaa ttcctatgat atagtatctg ct #ttccagtg    720 ctatggagaa tatgttagtg gttcaatcac tgatgagcaa agaaagaacg tc #ctccgcaa    780 ttcatgtcca ggagcaggtg cctgtggtgg tatgtacaca gcaaacacta tg #gcatctgc    840 tatcgaaact ttgggcatga gtcttccata cagttcttcg acacctgctg ag #gacccact    900 aaaactagaa gagtgccgtc ttgctgggaa gtatctttta gagttgctaa ag #atggattt    960 gaagcctaag gacattatca ctgagaagtc attgcgaaat gcaatggtta tt #gttatggc   1020 acttggtggt tcgactaatg ctgttctgca tttgattgcc attgctcggt cc #gttggttt   1080 gcatttgact cttgatgatt tccagaaggt cagtgaccaa gttcctttcc tt #gcagacct   1140 caagcccagt ggcaaatatg tcatggagga tctacataag attggtggga ca #cctgcagt   1200 cattcattac cttttggagc aaggtcttct tgatggtgat tgcatgactg tt #actggtaa   1260 aactctagct gagaatgcta aaatcttccc tcctctgtct gaggggcagc aa #ataattcg   1320 accacttgac aatcctatca aaccaactgg ccatattcaa atactttatg ga #aatcttgc   1380 accggaaggt tctgtcgcaa aaataactgg caaagaggga ctgttcttct ca #ggtcccgc   1440 attagttttt gagggtgaag aatccatgat cacagctatc tcagaaaacc ca #gcgaattt   1500 caagggaaag gtagtagtaa tccgaggaga aggaccaaaa ggagggccag gg #atgcctga   1560 aatgttgact ccaacaagtg caataatggg tgctggtctc ggaaaggagt gc #gccctgct   1620 gacagatggt agattttcag gaggctcaca tggatttgtt gtcggccaca ta #tgccctga   1680 agcacaggaa ggtggcccga ttggccttgt ccatagtggt gatgtaatca cc #atcgatgt   1740 aagtaagagg gtaatcgacg ttgaccttac cgagcagcag ctcgaagaaa ga #cggaggaa   1800 atggacccca ccgccataca agtccacctg tggagctctt tggaagtaca tc #aagcttgt   1860 ggctccagcg tctagaggat gcgtcactga tgagtaggat gtgttacatt ct #gttaggtt   1920 gtgcacatga tgtgtttgtc aatcaaaagc tgttgccagg aacaatttcc ct #gttagagt   1980 gattcattgt agttcggttt tgcatgtggc aggtatgaca ataaattgcc gg #tttctaag   2040 agcttagcaa tgctgcagaa actgctgaat aatcgagtgt aatcggggtc cg #tgagcaat   2100 cacatctttg tcagtcaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaa        #                   #     2135 <210> SEQ ID NO 2 <211> LENGTH: 591 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 2 Met Gln Ser Met Ala Leu Thr Ser Pro Ser Le #u Pro Glu Val Gly Pro   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Ser Gly Arg Arg Leu Gln Arg Ile Arg Al #a Thr Ala Val Ser Asp              20      #             25      #             30 Glu Leu Lys Leu Asn Lys Tyr Ser Ala Arg Il #e Thr Glu Pro Lys Ser          35          #         40          #         45 Gln Gly Ala Ser Gln Ala Val Leu Tyr Gly Va #l Gly Leu Thr Asp Ala      50              #     55              #     60 Asp Leu Arg Lys Pro Gln Val Gly Val Ser Se #r Val Trp Tyr Glu Gly  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asn Thr Cys Asn Met His Leu Leu Arg Leu Al #a Glu Ala Val Arg Asp                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Val Arg Glu Ala Gly Met Val Gly Phe Ar #g Phe Asn Thr Val Gly             100       #           105       #           110 Val Ser Asp Ala Ile Ser Met Gly Thr Arg Gl #y Met Cys Tyr Ser Leu         115           #       120           #       125 Gln Ser Arg Asp Leu Ile Ala Asp Ser Ile Gl #u Thr Val Met Gly Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Gln His Tyr Asp Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Pro Gl #y Cys Asp Lys Asn Met 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Pro Gly Thr Ile Met Ala Met Gly Arg Leu As #n Arg Pro Ser Ile Met                 165   #               170   #               175 Ile Tyr Gly Gly Thr Ile Lys Pro Gly His Ph #e Gln Gly Asn Ser Tyr             180       #           185       #           190 Asp Ile Val Ser Ala Phe Gln Cys Tyr Gly Gl #u Tyr Val Ser Gly Ser         195           #       200           #       205 Ile Thr Asp Glu Gln Arg Lys Asn Val Leu Ar #g Asn Ser Cys Pro Gly     210               #   215               #   220 Ala Gly Ala Cys Gly Gly Met Tyr Thr Ala As #n Thr Met Ala Ser Ala 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Ile Glu Thr Leu Gly Met Ser Leu Pro Tyr Se #r Ser Ser Thr Pro Ala                 245   #               250   #               255 Glu Asp Pro Leu Lys Leu Glu Glu Cys Arg Le #u Ala Gly Lys Tyr Leu             260       #           265       #           270 Leu Glu Leu Leu Lys Met Asp Leu Lys Pro Ly #s Asp Ile Ile Thr Glu         275           #       280           #       285 Lys Ser Leu Arg Asn Ala Met Val Ile Val Me #t Ala Leu Gly Gly Ser     290               #   295               #   300 Thr Asn Ala Val Leu His Leu Ile Ala Ile Al #a Arg Ser Val Gly Leu 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 His Leu Thr Leu Asp Asp Phe Gln Lys Val Se #r Asp Gln Val Pro Phe                 325   #               330   #               335 Leu Ala Asp Leu Lys Pro Ser Gly Lys Tyr Va #l Met Glu Asp Leu His             340       #           345       #           350 Lys Ile Gly Gly Thr Pro Ala Val Ile His Ty #r Leu Leu Glu Gln Gly         355           #       360           #       365 Leu Leu Asp Gly Asp Cys Met Thr Val Thr Gl #y Lys Thr Leu Ala Glu     370               #   375               #   380 Asn Ala Lys Ile Phe Pro Pro Leu Ser Glu Gl #y Gln Gln Ile Ile Arg 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Pro Leu Asp Asn Pro Ile Lys Pro Thr Gly Hi #s Ile Gln Ile Leu Tyr                 405   #               410   #               415 Gly Asn Leu Ala Pro Glu Gly Ser Val Ala Ly #s Ile Thr Gly Lys Glu             420       #           425       #           430 Gly Leu Phe Phe Ser Gly Pro Ala Leu Val Ph #e Glu Gly Glu Glu Ser         435           #       440           #       445 Met Ile Thr Ala Ile Ser Glu Asn Pro Ala As #n Phe Lys Gly Lys Val     450               #   455               #   460 Val Val Ile Arg Gly Glu Gly Pro Lys Gly Gl #y Pro Gly Met Pro Glu 465                 4 #70                 4 #75                 4 #80 Met Leu Thr Pro Thr Ser Ala Ile Met Gly Al #a Gly Leu Gly Lys Glu                 485   #               490   #               495 Cys Ala Leu Leu Thr Asp Gly Arg Phe Ser Gl #y Gly Ser His Gly Phe             500       #           505       #           510 Val Val Gly His Ile Cys Pro Glu Ala Gln Gl #u Gly Gly Pro Ile Gly         515           #       520           #       525 Leu Val His Ser Gly Asp Val Ile Thr Ile As #p Val Ser Lys Arg Val     530               #   535               #   540 Ile Asp Val Asp Leu Thr Glu Gln Gln Leu Gl #u Glu Arg Arg Arg Lys 545                 5 #50                 5 #55                 5 #60 Trp Thr Pro Pro Pro Tyr Lys Ser Thr Cys Gl #y Ala Leu Trp Lys Tyr                 565   #               570   #               575 Ile Lys Leu Val Ala Pro Ala Ser Arg Gly Cy #s Val Thr Asp Glu             580       #           585       #           590 <210> SEQ ID NO 3 <211> LENGTH: 2073 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 3 gtaaaccctt tttccatcta gagttgttgc ggctctcttc tctgcacact ca #gaatgcag     60 tccacactct tcaaccccac ccattccctt atccccactt caccacactc ta #tcagatcc    120 aattctggtc atgcttctct ctccgttcgc gcctccatcg ccgtggaaac cc #ccacggag    180 acggtgaagc tgaacaagta cagctcccgc atcaccgagc ccaaatcgca gg #gcgcctcc    240 caggccgtgc tctacggcgt cggtctctcc gaggacgaca tggccaagcc cc #aggtcggc    300 gtctcctcgg tctggtacga gggcaacacc tgcaacatgc acctcctcca cc #tctccgag    360 gccgtgcgtg acggcgttgc tgctgctggc atggttccct tccgcttcaa ca #ccgttggc    420 gtcagcgacg ccatctccat gggcacccgt ggcatgtgct acagcctcca gt #ccagggac    480 ctcattgccg acagcatcga gaccgtcatg gcagcgcagt ggtacgatgg ca #atatttcc    540 atccccggct gtgacaaaaa tatgccaggt actatcattg ccatggggag gc #tcaacaga    600 cctagcatta tggtttatgg cgggactata aaacctggtc attttgaggg ta #acacgttt    660 gacatagtgt ctgcctttca gtgctatgga gaatatgtga gtggatcaat ta #atgatgac    720 caaagacaaa atgttattcg caactcatgc cctggggctg gagcctgtgg tg #gaatgtat    780 acagccaata ccatggcttc tgcaatagaa gctatgggaa tgtctcttcc ct #atagctca    840 tctacacctg ctgaggatcc actaaagttg gatgagtgtc gtttagctgg ga #aatatctt    900 cttgagttac tgaaaatgga cttgaagccc cgagatatca tcactcgtaa at #cactacgt    960 aatgcaatgg ttatagttat ggcacttggt ggatctacta atgctgtgtt ac #atttaatt   1020 gctattgcca agtctgttgg cattgatttg actcttgatg attttcagaa gg #ttagcgat   1080 gaggttcctt ttattgcaga tcttaagcct agtgggaaat atgtcatgga ag #atgttcac   1140 aagattggag ggactcctgc agttatccgc taccttcttg agcaaggctt tt #tagatggt   1200 gactgtatga ctgtcactgg aaaaacccta gctgaaaatg cagaacttgt cc #ctcctctg   1260 tccaacgggc aggaaataat aaggccagta gaaaatccca tcaagaagac gg #ctcacatt   1320 caaatattat atggaaacct tgcaccacag ggttccgttg ctaaaattac tg #gaaaagaa   1380 gggctgtact tctctggtcc tgcacttgtc tttgaaggag aggaggcaat ga #ttgctgcc   1440 atttcagagg atccttcgag ttttaagggg aaagtggttg taatcagggg ag #agggaccc   1500 aagggtggtc cgggaatgcc tgagatgtta acaccaacaa gtgcaataat gg #gtgcaggt   1560 cttggaaagg aagttgcatt attgactgat ggaagatttt caggaggttc ac #atggattt   1620 gtggttggcc atatatgtcc tgaagcacag gaaggtggtc caattggctt ga #ttcaaaat   1680 ggagacgtaa tcaatgttga catcaagaat aggagaattg atgttttggt at #cagatgag   1740 gagatggaag cacgcaggaa aaagtggact gctcctccat acaaagctaa cc #gaggagct   1800 ctgtacaagt atattaaaaa tgtgacacct gcttctagtg gatgcgtaac ag #acgagtag   1860 aaagacatac ctgcagagca aaagctgata gtatgccttg gtgaaatttt gt #cttgtgtt   1920 tccagaacaa gttggtaaaa attcaaaaac aaacctcatt tcagagaatt ta #aaacaatg   1980 gaattgaatt gctactattg attagtgact atttaatatt tatgattttc ta #gagctaaa   2040 aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaa        #                   #       2073 <210> SEQ ID NO 4 <211> LENGTH: 601 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 4 Met Gln Ser Thr Leu Phe Asn Pro Thr His Se #r Leu Ile Pro Thr Ser   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Pro His Ser Ile Arg Ser Asn Ser Gly His Al #a Ser Leu Ser Val Arg              20      #             25      #             30 Ala Ser Ile Ala Val Glu Thr Pro Thr Glu Th #r Val Lys Leu Asn Lys          35          #         40          #         45 Tyr Ser Ser Arg Ile Thr Glu Pro Lys Ser Gl #n Gly Ala Ser Gln Ala      50              #     55              #     60 Val Leu Tyr Gly Val Gly Leu Ser Glu Asp As #p Met Ala Lys Pro Gln  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Val Gly Val Ser Ser Val Trp Tyr Glu Gly As #n Thr Cys Asn Met His                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Leu Leu His Leu Ser Glu Ala Val Arg Asp Gl #y Val Ala Ala Ala Gly             100       #           105       #           110 Met Val Pro Phe Arg Phe Asn Thr Val Gly Va #l Ser Asp Ala Ile Ser         115           #       120           #       125 Met Gly Thr Arg Gly Met Cys Tyr Ser Leu Gl #n Ser Arg Asp Leu Ile     130               #   135               #   140 Ala Asp Ser Ile Glu Thr Val Met Ala Ala Gl #n Trp Tyr Asp Gly Asn 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ile Ser Ile Pro Gly Cys Asp Lys Asn Met Pr #o Gly Thr Ile Ile Ala                 165   #               170   #               175 Met Gly Arg Leu Asn Arg Pro Ser Ile Met Va #l Tyr Gly Gly Thr Ile             180       #           185       #           190 Lys Pro Gly His Phe Glu Gly Asn Thr Phe As #p Ile Val Ser Ala Phe         195           #       200           #       205 Gln Cys Tyr Gly Glu Tyr Val Ser Gly Ser Il #e Asn Asp Asp Gln Arg     210               #   215               #   220 Gln Asn Val Ile Arg Asn Ser Cys Pro Gly Al #a Gly Ala Cys Gly Gly 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Met Tyr Thr Ala Asn Thr Met Ala Ser Ala Il #e Glu Ala Met Gly Met                 245   #               250   #               255 Ser Leu Pro Tyr Ser Ser Ser Thr Pro Ala Gl #u Asp Pro Leu Lys Leu             260       #           265       #           270 Asp Glu Cys Arg Leu Ala Gly Lys Tyr Leu Le #u Glu Leu Leu Lys Met         275           #       280           #       285 Asp Leu Lys Pro Arg Asp Ile Ile Thr Arg Ly #s Ser Leu Arg Asn Ala     290               #   295               #   300 Met Val Ile Val Met Ala Leu Gly Gly Ser Th #r Asn Ala Val Leu His 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Leu Ile Ala Ile Ala Lys Ser Val Gly Ile As #p Leu Thr Leu Asp Asp                 325   #               330   #               335 Phe Gln Lys Val Ser Asp Glu Val Pro Phe Il #e Ala Asp Leu Lys Pro             340       #           345       #           350 Ser Gly Lys Tyr Val Met Glu Asp Val His Ly #s Ile Gly Gly Thr Pro         355           #       360           #       365 Ala Val Ile Arg Tyr Leu Leu Glu Gln Gly Ph #e Leu Asp Gly Asp Cys     370               #   375               #   380 Met Thr Val Thr Gly Lys Thr Leu Ala Glu As #n Ala Glu Leu Val Pro 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Pro Leu Ser Asn Gly Gln Glu Ile Ile Arg Pr #o Val Glu Asn Pro Ile                 405   #               410   #               415 Lys Lys Thr Ala His Ile Gln Ile Leu Tyr Gl #y Asn Leu Ala Pro Gln             420       #           425       #           430 Gly Ser Val Ala Lys Ile Thr Gly Lys Glu Gl #y Leu Tyr Phe Ser Gly         435           #       440           #       445 Pro Ala Leu Val Phe Glu Gly Glu Glu Ala Me #t Ile Ala Ala Ile Ser     450               #   455               #   460 Glu Asp Pro Ser Ser Phe Lys Gly Lys Val Va #l Val Ile Arg Gly Glu 465                 4 #70                 4 #75                 4 #80 Gly Pro Lys Gly Gly Pro Gly Met Pro Glu Me #t Leu Thr Pro Thr Ser                 485   #               490   #               495 Ala Ile Met Gly Ala Gly Leu Gly Lys Glu Va #l Ala Leu Leu Thr Asp             500       #           505       #           510 Gly Arg Phe Ser Gly Gly Ser His Gly Phe Va #l Val Gly His Ile Cys         515           #       520           #       525 Pro Glu Ala Gln Glu Gly Gly Pro Ile Gly Le #u Ile Gln Asn Gly Asp     530               #   535               #   540 Val Ile Asn Val Asp Ile Lys Asn Arg Arg Il #e Asp Val Leu Val Ser 545                 5 #50                 5 #55                 5 #60 Asp Glu Glu Met Glu Ala Arg Arg Lys Lys Tr #p Thr Ala Pro Pro Tyr                 565   #               570   #               575 Lys Ala Asn Arg Gly Ala Leu Tyr Lys Tyr Il #e Lys Asn Val Thr Pro             580       #           585       #           590 Ala Ser Ser Gly Cys Val Thr Asp Glu         595           #       600 <210> SEQ ID NO 5 <211> LENGTH: 517 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (447) <400> SEQUENCE: 5 tgcaccagaa ggttcagtag caaaaataac cggcaaggag ggactgtttt tc #tcaggtcc     60 tgcactagtt tttgacggtg aagaatcaat gattacagct atatcagaaa ac #ccagcaaa    120 tttcaaggga aaggttgtag tgatccgagg agaaggacca aaaggaggtc cc #gggatgcc    180 tgaaatgttg actccaacaa gtgcaataat gggggctggt cttgggaagg ag #tgtgccct    240 gctgacagat ggtagatttt ctggggggtc gcatggattt gttgtgggcc ac #gtatgtcc    300 tgaagcacag gaaggaggcc caattggtct tgttgagaat ggcgatacaa tc #acgatcga    360 cgtcgggaag aaagtaattg atgttgattt gacggaagac cagcttgaac aa #aggcgaag    420 gaaatggagc ccgcctccac acaaggntac taatgggagc actttggaag ta #cataaagc    480 tccgtgtcct tcagcctcaa agtggggtgc gtcaacc       #                   #     517 <210> SEQ ID NO 6 <211> LENGTH: 156 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (149) <400> SEQUENCE: 6 Ala Pro Glu Gly Ser Val Ala Lys Ile Thr Gl #y Lys Glu Gly Leu Phe   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Phe Ser Gly Pro Ala Leu Val Phe Asp Gly Gl #u Glu Ser Met Ile Thr              20      #             25      #             30 Ala Ile Ser Glu Asn Pro Ala Asn Phe Lys Gl #y Lys Val Val Val Ile          35          #         40          #         45 Arg Gly Glu Gly Pro Lys Gly Gly Pro Gly Me #t Pro Glu Met Leu Thr      50              #     55              #     60 Pro Thr Ser Ala Ile Met Gly Ala Gly Leu Gl #y Lys Glu Cys Ala Leu  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Leu Thr Asp Gly Arg Phe Ser Gly Gly Ser Hi #s Gly Phe Val Val Gly                  85  #                 90  #                 95 His Val Cys Pro Glu Ala Gln Glu Gly Gly Pr #o Ile Gly Leu Val Glu             100       #           105       #           110 Asn Gly Asp Thr Ile Thr Ile Asp Val Gly Ly #s Lys Val Ile Asp Val         115           #       120           #       125 Asp Leu Thr Glu Asp Gln Leu Glu Gln Arg Ar #g Arg Lys Trp Ser Pro     130               #   135               #   140 Pro Pro His Lys Xaa Thr Asn Gly Ser Thr Le #u Glu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55 <210> SEQ ID NO 7 <211> LENGTH: 585 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Saccharomyces cerevisiae <400> SEQUENCE: 7 Met Gly Leu Leu Thr Lys Val Ala Thr Ser Ar #g Gln Phe Ser Thr Thr   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Arg Cys Val Ala Lys Lys Leu Asn Lys Tyr Se #r Tyr Ile Ile Thr Glu              20      #             25      #             30 Pro Lys Gly Gln Gly Ala Ser Gln Ala Met Le #u Tyr Ala Thr Gly Phe          35          #         40          #         45 Lys Lys Glu Asp Phe Lys Lys Pro Gln Val Gl #y Val Gly Ser Cys Trp      50              #     55              #     60 Trp Ser Gly Asn Pro Cys Asn Met His Leu Le #u Asp Leu Asn Asn Arg  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Cys Ser Gln Ser Ile Glu Lys Ala Gly Leu Ly #s Ala Met Gln Phe Asn                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Thr Ile Gly Val Ser Asp Gly Ile Ser Met Gl #y Thr Lys Gly Met Arg             100       #           105       #           110 Tyr Ser Leu Gln Ser Arg Glu Ile Ile Ala As #p Ser Phe Glu Thr Ile         115           #       120           #       125 Met Met Ala Gln His Tyr Asp Ala Asn Ile Al #a Ile Pro Ser Cys Asp     130               #   135               #   140 Lys Asn Met Pro Gly Val Met Met Ala Met Gl #y Arg His Asn Arg Pro 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ser Ile Met Val Tyr Gly Gly Thr Ile Leu Pr #o Gly His Pro Thr Cys                 165   #               170   #               175 Gly Ser Ser Lys Ile Ser Lys Asn Ile Asp Il #e Val Ser Ala Phe Gln             180       #           185       #           190 Ser Tyr Gly Glu Tyr Ile Ser Lys Gln Phe Th #r Glu Glu Glu Arg Glu         195           #       200           #       205 Asp Val Val Glu His Ala Cys Pro Gly Pro Gl #y Ser Cys Gly Gly Met     210               #   215               #   220 Tyr Thr Ala Asn Thr Met Ala Ser Ala Ala Gl #u Val Leu Gly Leu Thr 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Ile Pro Asn Ser Ser Ser Phe Pro Ala Val Se #r Lys Glu Lys Leu Ala                 245   #               250   #               255 Glu Cys Asp Asn Ile Gly Glu Tyr Ile Lys Ly #s Thr Met Glu Leu Gly             260       #           265       #           270 Ile Leu Pro Arg Asp Ile Leu Thr Lys Glu Al #a Phe Glu Asn Ala Ile         275           #       280           #       285 Thr Tyr Val Val Ala Thr Gly Gly Ser Thr As #n Ala Val Leu His Leu     290               #   295               #   300 Val Ala Val Ala His Ser Ala Gly Val Lys Le #u Ser Pro Asp Asp Phe 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Gln Arg Ile Ser Asp Thr Thr Pro Leu Ile Gl #y Asp Phe Lys Pro Ser                 325   #               330   #               335 Gly Lys Tyr Val Met Ala Asp Leu Ile Asn Va #l Gly Gly Thr Gln Ser             340       #           345       #           350 Val Ile Lys Tyr Leu Tyr Glu Asn Asn Met Le #u His Gly Asn Thr Met         355           #       360           #       365 Thr Val Thr Gly Asp Thr Leu Ala Glu Arg Al #a Lys Lys Ala Pro Ser     370               #   375               #   380 Leu Pro Glu Gly Gln Glu Ile Ile Lys Pro Le #u Ser His Pro Ile Lys 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Ala Asn Gly His Leu Gln Ile Leu Tyr Gly Se #r Leu Ala Pro Gly Gly                 405   #               410   #               415 Ala Val Gly Lys Ile Thr Gly Lys Glu Gly Th #r Tyr Phe Lys Gly Arg             420       #           425       #           430 Ala Arg Val Phe Glu Glu Glu Gly Ala Phe Il #e Glu Ala Leu Glu Arg         435           #       440           #       445 Gly Glu Ile Lys Lys Gly Glu Lys Thr Val Va #l Val Ile Arg Tyr Glu     450               #   455               #   460 Gly Pro Arg Gly Ala Pro Gly Met Pro Glu Me #t Leu Lys Pro Ser Ser 465                 4 #70                 4 #75                 4 #80 Ala Leu Met Gly Tyr Gly Leu Gly Lys Asp Va #l Ala Leu Leu Thr Asp                 485   #               490   #               495 Gly Arg Phe Ser Gly Gly Ser His Gly Phe Le #u Ile Gly His Ile Val             500       #           505       #           510 Pro Glu Ala Ala Glu Gly Gly Pro Ile Gly Le #u Val Arg Asp Gly Asp         515           #       520           #       525 Glu Ile Ile Ile Asp Ala Asp Asn Asn Lys Il #e Asp Leu Leu Val Ser     530               #   535               #   540 Asp Lys Glu Met Ala Gln Arg Lys Gln Ser Tr #p Val Ala Pro Pro Pro 545                 5 #50                 5 #55                 5 #60 Arg Tyr Thr Arg Gly Thr Leu Ser Lys Tyr Al #a Lys Leu Val Ser Asn                 565   #               570   #               575 Ala Ser Asn Gly Cys Val Leu Asp Ala             580       #           585 <210> SEQ ID NO 8 <211> LENGTH: 502 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 8 cgctgagcaa cccccggcct acacggcgta gctttgcagg aaatggaata cg #gcgccgtc     60 ctcgccgccg cgccgctcgt cgcacggccg aactggctcc tcctctcgcc gc #cgccactg    120 gcgccgtcta ttcagattca gaatcgtctt tattcgatct cgtcattccc ac #taaaggct    180 ggacctgtaa gggcatgcag agctttagca agcaactaca cgcaaacatc tg #aaacagtt    240 gatttggact gggagaacct gggttttggg attgtgcaaa ctgattatat gt #atattgct    300 aagtgcggga cagacgggaa tttttctgag ggtgaaatgg tgccttttgg ac #ctatagcg    360 ctgagtccat cttctggagt cctaaattat ggacagggat tgtttgaggg cc #taaaggcg    420 tataagaaaa ctgatggatc catcctatta tttcgcccag aggaaaatgc tg #agaggatg    480 cggacaggtg ctgagaggat gt            #                   #                502 <210> SEQ ID NO 9 <211> LENGTH: 153 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 9 Met Glu Tyr Gly Ala Val Leu Ala Ala Ala Pr #o Leu Val Ala Arg Pro   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Asn Trp Leu Leu Leu Ser Pro Pro Pro Leu Al #a Pro Ser Ile Gln Ile              20      #             25      #             30 Gln Asn Arg Leu Tyr Ser Ile Ser Ser Phe Pr #o Leu Lys Ala Gly Pro          35          #         40          #         45 Val Arg Ala Cys Arg Ala Leu Ala Ser Asn Ty #r Thr Gln Thr Ser Glu      50              #     55              #     60 Thr Val Asp Leu Asp Trp Glu Asn Leu Gly Ph #e Gly Ile Val Gln Thr  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asp Tyr Met Tyr Ile Ala Lys Cys Gly Thr As #p Gly Asn Phe Ser Glu                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Glu Met Val Pro Phe Gly Pro Ile Ala Le #u Ser Pro Ser Ser Gly             100       #           105       #           110 Val Leu Asn Tyr Gly Gln Gly Leu Phe Glu Gl #y Leu Lys Ala Tyr Lys         115           #       120           #       125 Lys Thr Asp Gly Ser Ile Leu Leu Phe Arg Pr #o Glu Glu Asn Ala Glu     130               #   135               #   140 Arg Met Arg Thr Gly Ala Glu Arg Met 145                 1 #50 <210> SEQ ID NO 10 <211> LENGTH: 794 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 10 tcgagttttt tttttttttt ttttgtatcc cctgttggga attatttcaa gg #aaggttta     60 tctcctatta atttgatcgt tgaggataaa tttcaccgtg ccagccctgg tg #gaactgga    120 ggtgtgaaaa ccattggaaa ctatgcctcg gtactgaaag cacaaaagat tg #caaagggg    180 aaaggatatt ctgatgtcct ttatttggat gctgttcatg acaaatatct tg #aagaagtc    240 tcttcctgca atatttttgt tgtgaaagac aatgttattt ctacgcctgc ca #ttaaagga    300 acaatacttc ctggtataac gaggaaaagt atcattgaag ttgctcagag ca #aaggtttc    360 aaggttgagg agcgtctggt gtgtgtagat gagttgatta acgctgatga ag #ttttctgc    420 acggggactg ctgttgtggt gtcacctgtg gggagtgtta catatatggg ga #aaagggtg    480 gaatatggca accaaggagt cggtgtcgtg tctcagcaac tatacaagtc ac #ttacaagc    540 ctccagatgg gcaatgtgga ggactggatg ggttggacca tgcaacttaa tc #agtagcgg    600 atcacagata ttgccttggc agatcccgga ttattacagc tactgggtgc ga #tagttttt    660 tttttggcag atccatcttg agcatatttg actgtaccgg tttcccttga ga #ctaagacg    720 aaagtgatct tactgatctt ttgtttcaaa tctaaaacga taaaataaaa tg #tggtttgc    780 aaaaaaaaaa aaaa               #                   #                   #    794 <210> SEQ ID NO 11 <211> LENGTH: 198 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 11 Ser Ser Phe Phe Phe Phe Phe Phe Val Ser Pr #o Val Gly Asn Tyr Phe   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Lys Glu Gly Leu Ser Pro Ile Asn Leu Ile Va #l Glu Asp Lys Phe His              20      #             25      #             30 Arg Ala Ser Pro Gly Gly Thr Gly Gly Val Ly #s Thr Ile Gly Asn Tyr          35          #         40          #         45 Ala Ser Val Leu Lys Ala Gln Lys Ile Ala Ly #s Gly Lys Gly Tyr Ser      50              #     55              #     60 Asp Val Leu Tyr Leu Asp Ala Val His Asp Ly #s Tyr Leu Glu Glu Val  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Ser Cys Asn Ile Phe Val Val Lys Asp As #n Val Ile Ser Thr Pro                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ala Ile Lys Gly Thr Ile Leu Pro Gly Ile Th #r Arg Lys Ser Ile Ile             100       #           105       #           110 Glu Val Ala Gln Ser Lys Gly Phe Lys Val Gl #u Glu Arg Leu Val Cys         115           #       120           #       125 Val Asp Glu Leu Ile Asn Ala Asp Glu Val Ph #e Cys Thr Gly Thr Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Val Val Val Ser Pro Val Gly Ser Val Thr Ty #r Met Gly Lys Arg Val 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Glu Tyr Gly Asn Gln Gly Val Gly Val Val Se #r Gln Gln Leu Tyr Lys                 165   #               170   #               175 Ser Leu Thr Ser Leu Gln Met Gly Asn Val Gl #u Asp Trp Met Gly Trp             180       #           185       #           190 Thr Met Gln Leu Asn Gln         195 <210> SEQ ID NO 12 <211> LENGTH: 445 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (252) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (311) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (336) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (356) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (361) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (369) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (384) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (393) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (418) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (431) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (437) <400> SEQUENCE: 12 gtcgtcaagg gcggcgtggt cgccacgccg gacacccggg gcaccatcct gc #cgggcatc     60 acgcgcaaga gcgtcatcga gctcgccagg gaccgcggat acaaggttga gg #aacgcctg    120 gtttccatcg acgatctggt ggccgcagac gaggtgttct gcaccgggac cg #cggtggtg    180 gttgctcccg tgtcgacagt cacgtaccag ggcgagaggt atgagttcag aa #cggggccg    240 gacacggtgt cncaggagct gtacacgacg ctgacatcca ttcagatggg ca #tggccgcc    300 gaggacagca ngggatggac agtaccagta gagtanatta ataaggttgg gg #aatncatc    360 nccacaacnt tgtttccaca tcantattgt canccggtaa aatgcatact cg #gttatnac    420 atatgtgtgt ngcacanttg aaaaa           #                   #              445 <210> SEQ ID NO 13 <211> LENGTH: 115 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (104) <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (112) <400> SEQUENCE: 13 Val Val Lys Gly Gly Val Val Ala Thr Pro As #p Thr Arg Gly Thr Ile   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Leu Pro Gly Ile Thr Arg Lys Ser Val Ile Gl #u Leu Ala Arg Asp Arg              20      #             25      #             30 Gly Tyr Lys Val Glu Glu Arg Leu Val Ser Il #e Asp Asp Leu Val Ala          35          #         40          #         45 Ala Asp Glu Val Phe Cys Thr Gly Thr Ala Va #l Val Val Ala Pro Val      50              #     55              #     60 Ser Thr Val Thr Tyr Gln Gly Glu Arg Tyr Gl #u Phe Arg Thr Gly Pro  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asp Thr Val Ser Gln Glu Leu Tyr Thr Thr Le #u Thr Ser Ile Gln Met                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Met Ala Ala Glu Asp Ser Xaa Gly Trp Th #r Val Pro Val Glu Xaa             100       #           105       #           110 Ile Asn Lys         115 <210> SEQ ID NO 14 <211> LENGTH: 1086 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 14 gcacgagggc atactcagcc gctacggcaa catcgagctc agcccctcct cc #ggcgtcat     60 caactacggc caggggctct tcgagggtct gaaggcgtac agggcggcga ac #caacaggg    120 gtcgtacatg ctgttccggc cggaggagaa cgcgcggcgg atgcagcacg gc #gccgagcg    180 catgtgcatg ccgtcgccgt cggtggagca gttcgtccac gccgtcaagc ag #accgtcct    240 cgccaaccgc cgctgggtgc caccgcaagg aaagggggcg ctgtacatca gg #ccgctgct    300 catcgggagc ggaccgattc tcgggctggc tcccgccccg gagtacacgt tc #ctcatcta    360 cgccgcaccg gttggaacgt acttcaagga gggtctagcg ccgataaacc tt #gtcgtaga    420 ggactcgata caccgggcca tgccgggcgg caccggtggg gtcaagacga tc #accaacta    480 cgcgccggtg ctcaaggcgc agatggacgc caagagcata gggttcactg ac #gtgctgta    540 cctcgacgcg gtgcacaaga cgtacctgga ggaggcctcc tcctgcaacc tc #ttcatcgt    600 caaggacggc gtcgtcgcca cgccggccac cgtgggaacc atcctgccgg gg #atcacgcg    660 caagagcgtc atcgagctcg ccagggaccg cggctatcag gttgaagaac gg #ctcgtctc    720 catcgacgat ctggtcggcg cagacgaggt gttctgcacc ggaacagcgg tg #gtcgttgc    780 cccagtatcg agtgttactt accatgggca aaggtacgag ttcaggactg ga #catgacac    840 gttatcgcag acactgcaca cgactctgac gtccatccag atgggcctgg ct #gaggacaa    900 gaaaggatgg acagtggcaa tagattaagg atggattatg ggcaaaggga tc #ccgattat    960 tcctcatgtc atccaatgta gattattgtc gttttatata tcttcctgta gc #gacagtga   1020 tcacagcgca agtggaattt ggacgaacag gaagcaaatg cagatcatct ta #ctgcgtaa   1080 aaaaaa                  #                   #                   #         1086 <210> SEQ ID NO 15 <211> LENGTH: 307 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 15 Glu Gly Ile Leu Ser Arg Tyr Gly Asn Ile Gl #u Leu Ser Pro Ser Ser   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Gly Val Ile Asn Tyr Gly Gln Gly Leu Phe Gl #u Gly Leu Lys Ala Tyr              20      #             25      #             30 Arg Ala Ala Asn Gln Gln Gly Ser Tyr Met Le #u Phe Arg Pro Glu Glu          35          #         40          #         45 Asn Ala Arg Arg Met Gln His Gly Ala Glu Ar #g Met Cys Met Pro Ser      50              #     55              #     60 Pro Ser Val Glu Gln Phe Val His Ala Val Ly #s Gln Thr Val Leu Ala  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asn Arg Arg Trp Val Pro Pro Gln Gly Lys Gl #y Ala Leu Tyr Ile Arg                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Pro Leu Leu Ile Gly Ser Gly Pro Ile Leu Gl #y Leu Ala Pro Ala Pro             100       #           105       #           110 Glu Tyr Thr Phe Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ala Pro Va #l Gly Thr Tyr Phe Lys         115           #       120           #       125 Glu Gly Leu Ala Pro Ile Asn Leu Val Val Gl #u Asp Ser Ile His Arg     130               #   135               #   140 Ala Met Pro Gly Gly Thr Gly Gly Val Lys Th #r Ile Thr Asn Tyr Ala 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Pro Val Leu Lys Ala Gln Met Asp Ala Lys Se #r Ile Gly Phe Thr Asp                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Leu Tyr Leu Asp Ala Val His Lys Thr Ty #r Leu Glu Glu Ala Ser             180       #           185       #           190 Ser Cys Asn Leu Phe Ile Val Lys Asp Gly Va #l Val Ala Thr Pro Ala         195           #       200           #       205 Thr Val Gly Thr Ile Leu Pro Gly Ile Thr Ar #g Lys Ser Val Ile Glu     210               #   215               #   220 Leu Ala Arg Asp Arg Gly Tyr Gln Val Glu Gl #u Arg Leu Val Ser Ile 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Asp Asp Leu Val Gly Ala Asp Glu Val Phe Cy #s Thr Gly Thr Ala Val                 245   #               250   #               255 Val Val Ala Pro Val Ser Ser Val Thr Tyr Hi #s Gly Gln Arg Tyr Glu             260       #           265       #           270 Phe Arg Thr Gly His Asp Thr Leu Ser Gln Th #r Leu His Thr Thr Leu         275           #       280           #       285 Thr Ser Ile Gln Met Gly Leu Ala Glu Asp Ly #s Lys Gly Trp Thr Val     290               #   295               #   300 Ala Ile Asp 305 <210> SEQ ID NO 16 <211> LENGTH: 965 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 16 catccttgtt tgtccatgct cccgagttgt gaatatcagg gactgcctca gc #tcctccat     60 tgactttcct tggagttgta agcccagctt agaagaggct acgctgatgt cc #attttcta    120 aagtttaatt tcaactccca atatcacaag tttatataga tatatgcttt tt #tgaaagag    180 gctcgtgccg aattcggcac gaggaaaatg gagagcattc gactaattta cc #cgatctgc    240 ccctctagac attcttcctt tcttctctct catcaatctc ccttcctatg cg #aaccttct    300 ctctctctca agcttcgaaa gcagtttcct ctcacttcgc agaatgttct gg #aagccgcc    360 tctcctctca ggccttccgc cactctgtct tctgatccct acagtgagac ga #ttgaatta    420 gctgatatag aatgggacaa ccttgggttt gggcttcaac ccactgatta ta #tgtatatc    480 atgaaatgca cacgaggtgg aaccttttcc aaaggtgaat tgcagcgttt tg #ggaacatc    540 gagttgaacc cctccgctgg agttttaaac tatggccagg gattatttga gg #gtttgaaa    600 gcataccgca aacaagatgg gagtatactc ctcttccgtc cggaagaaaa tg #gtttgcgg    660 atgcagatag gtgcggagcg gatgtgcatg ccatcaccta ctatggagca gt #ttgtggaa    720 gctgtgaagg atactgtttt agctaacaaa cgttgggttc cccctgcagg ta #aaggttcc    780 ttgtatatta gacctttgtt aatgggaagt ggacctgtac ttggtgttgc ac #ctgcacca    840 gagtacacat ttctaatata tgtttcacct gttgggaact acttcaagga ag #gtttggcc    900 ccaatcaatt tgattgtaga aaatgaattc catcgtgcaa ctcctggtgg ca #ctggagct    960 cgtgc                  #                   #                   #           965 <210> SEQ ID NO 17 <211> LENGTH: 252 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 17 Met Glu Ser Ile Arg Leu Ile Tyr Pro Ile Cy #s Pro Ser Arg His Ser   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Ser Phe Leu Leu Ser His Gln Ser Pro Phe Le #u Cys Glu Pro Ser Leu              20      #             25      #             30 Ser Leu Lys Leu Arg Lys Gln Phe Pro Leu Th #r Ser Gln Asn Val Leu          35          #         40          #         45 Glu Ala Ala Ser Pro Leu Arg Pro Ser Ala Th #r Leu Ser Ser Asp Pro      50              #     55              #     60 Tyr Ser Glu Thr Ile Glu Leu Ala Asp Ile Gl #u Trp Asp Asn Leu Gly  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Phe Gly Leu Gln Pro Thr Asp Tyr Met Tyr Il #e Met Lys Cys Thr Arg                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Gly Thr Phe Ser Lys Gly Glu Leu Gln Ar #g Phe Gly Asn Ile Glu             100       #           105       #           110 Leu Asn Pro Ser Ala Gly Val Leu Asn Tyr Gl #y Gln Gly Leu Phe Glu         115           #       120           #       125 Gly Leu Lys Ala Tyr Arg Lys Gln Asp Gly Se #r Ile Leu Leu Phe Arg     130               #   135               #   140 Pro Glu Glu Asn Gly Leu Arg Met Gln Ile Gl #y Ala Glu Arg Met Cys 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Met Pro Ser Pro Thr Met Glu Gln Phe Val Gl #u Ala Val Lys Asp Thr                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Leu Ala Asn Lys Arg Trp Val Pro Pro Al #a Gly Lys Gly Ser Leu             180       #           185       #           190 Tyr Ile Arg Pro Leu Leu Met Gly Ser Gly Pr #o Val Leu Gly Val Ala         195           #       200           #       205 Pro Ala Pro Glu Tyr Thr Phe Leu Ile Tyr Va #l Ser Pro Val Gly Asn     210               #   215               #   220 Tyr Phe Lys Glu Gly Leu Ala Pro Ile Asn Le #u Ile Val Glu Asn Glu 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Phe His Arg Ala Thr Pro Gly Gly Thr Gly Al #a Arg                 245   #               250 <210> SEQ ID NO 18 <211> LENGTH: 1501 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 18 gcacgagccg cgcggcacgt cggtctcccc cagccccagg ccgcatccgg gc #ctaccctc     60 gcaacccatt cagaagcgat tgtccggcag cgccgtctcc gtctccaggc ga #ggcactgc    120 ggcaaggagc agcccgtgtt ccgccctgat gacggcatca tacaacacag ga #actccgga    180 cctagtcgac ttcgactggg agactcttgg atttcaactg gtcccgacgg ac #tttatgta    240 tataatgaaa tgttcgtcag atggggtgtt caccaagggt gaattggttc ca #tatgggcc    300 aatcgagctg aaccctgctg ctgcagtttt aaattatggc cagggattgc tc #gaaggtct    360 tagagcacac agaaaggagg atggttcagt agttgttttt cgccccaagg aa #aacgcgtt    420 gcggatgagg ataggtgcag atcggctatg catgcctgca ccaagcgttg ag #cagttcct    480 atcagctgtc aagcacacta tattggcaaa caagcgttgg gtacccccca ct #ggcaaagg    540 ttctttatat atcaggccgc tgctgattgg aagtggagct atgctaggtg ta #gcacctgc    600 cccggagtat acatttgttg tgtatgtttg cccagttggt cactatttca ag #gatggcct    660 gtcaccaatt agcttattga ctgaggaaga atatcaccgc gctgcacctg gt #ggaactgg    720 tgatattaag acaattggaa attatgcttc ggttgttagt gctcagagaa ga #gccaagga    780 gaaaggtcat tctgatgttc tttacttgga tcccgtgcat aagaagtttg tg #gaggaagt    840 ttcttcctgt aatatattga tggtgaagga taatgttatt tctactccac ta #ttaacggg    900 aacaattctt cctggaatca caagaagaag tataattgaa attgcccaaa at #cttggaat    960 ccaggtcgaa gagcgcctta ttgcgataga tgagttgctt gacgctgatg aa #gtcttctg   1020 tacagggact gccgttgtac tatcacccgt tggttccatt gtgtaccacg ga #agaagagt   1080 ggagtatggg ggcgggaagg tcggagcggt gtcccagcaa ctgtattcgg ca #cttacagc   1140 tatccagaaa ggccttgtgg aggacagtat gggatggagt gtgcagttga at #tagcagct   1200 tcatcatctg gacggtctct acgagcctcc tcggcaagaa aacaatgcaa aa #tcacttga   1260 ccctctgtca ggaaattttg cagaatgtag aatagcataa tttccctgtg aa #gatagcaa   1320 gaggtacaca cacaacatag catcaagctg gatcagaaag attaataata at #gattaaat   1380 agctgttgtt tcttctcatt ctgtttccca agaggactga atgcgctttg ag #tgtgaata   1440 actccataac atacttgcaa ttgcaaacca tgagacataa ataattggtg gc #aaaaaaaa   1500 a                   #                   #                   #             1501 <210> SEQ ID NO 19 <211> LENGTH: 348 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 19 Met Thr Ala Ser Tyr Asn Thr Gly Thr Pro As #p Leu Val Asp Phe Asp   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Trp Glu Thr Leu Gly Phe Gln Leu Val Pro Th #r Asp Phe Met Tyr Ile              20      #             25      #             30 Met Lys Cys Ser Ser Asp Gly Val Phe Thr Ly #s Gly Glu Leu Val Pro          35          #         40          #         45 Tyr Gly Pro Ile Glu Leu Asn Pro Ala Ala Al #a Val Leu Asn Tyr Gly      50              #     55              #     60 Gln Gly Leu Leu Glu Gly Leu Arg Ala His Ar #g Lys Glu Asp Gly Ser  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Val Val Val Phe Arg Pro Lys Glu Asn Ala Le #u Arg Met Arg Ile Gly                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ala Asp Arg Leu Cys Met Pro Ala Pro Ser Va #l Glu Gln Phe Leu Ser             100       #           105       #           110 Ala Val Lys His Thr Ile Leu Ala Asn Lys Ar #g Trp Val Pro Pro Thr         115           #       120           #       125 Gly Lys Gly Ser Leu Tyr Ile Arg Pro Leu Le #u Ile Gly Ser Gly Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Met Leu Gly Val Ala Pro Ala Pro Glu Tyr Th #r Phe Val Val Tyr Val 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Cys Pro Val Gly His Tyr Phe Lys Asp Gly Le #u Ser Pro Ile Ser Leu                 165   #               170   #               175 Leu Thr Glu Glu Glu Tyr His Arg Ala Ala Pr #o Gly Gly Thr Gly Asp             180       #           185       #           190 Ile Lys Thr Ile Gly Asn Tyr Ala Ser Val Va #l Ser Ala Gln Arg Arg         195           #       200           #       205 Ala Lys Glu Lys Gly His Ser Asp Val Leu Ty #r Leu Asp Pro Val His     210               #   215               #   220 Lys Lys Phe Val Glu Glu Val Ser Ser Cys As #n Ile Leu Met Val Lys 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Asp Asn Val Ile Ser Thr Pro Leu Leu Thr Gl #y Thr Ile Leu Pro Gly                 245   #               250   #               255 Ile Thr Arg Arg Ser Ile Ile Glu Ile Ala Gl #n Asn Leu Gly Ile Gln             260       #           265       #           270 Val Glu Glu Arg Leu Ile Ala Ile Asp Glu Le #u Leu Asp Ala Asp Glu         275           #       280           #       285 Val Phe Cys Thr Gly Thr Ala Val Val Leu Se #r Pro Val Gly Ser Ile     290               #   295               #   300 Val Tyr His Gly Arg Arg Val Glu Tyr Gly Gl #y Gly Lys Val Gly Ala 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Val Ser Gln Gln Leu Tyr Ser Ala Leu Thr Al #a Ile Gln Lys Gly Leu                 325   #               330   #               335 Val Glu Asp Ser Met Gly Trp Ser Val Gln Le #u Asn             340       #           345 <210> SEQ ID NO 20 <211> LENGTH: 363 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Bacillus subtilis <400> SEQUENCE: 20 Met Thr Lys Gln Thr Ile Arg Val Glu Leu Th #r Ser Thr Lys Lys Pro   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Lys Pro Asp Pro Asn Gln Leu Ser Phe Gly Ar #g Val Phe Thr Asp His              20      #             25      #             30 Met Phe Val Met Asp Tyr Ala Ala Asp Lys Gl #y Trp Tyr Asp Pro Arg          35          #         40          #         45 Ile Ile Pro Tyr Gln Pro Leu Ser Met Asp Pr #o Thr Ala Met Val Tyr      50              #     55              #     60 His Tyr Gly Gln Thr Val Phe Glu Gly Leu Ly #s Ala Tyr Val Ser Glu  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asp Asp His Val Leu Leu Phe Arg Pro Glu Ly #s Asn Met Glu Arg Leu                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Asn Gln Ser Asn Asp Arg Leu Cys Ile Pro Gl #n Ile Asp Glu Glu Gln             100       #           105       #           110 Val Leu Glu Gly Leu Lys Gln Leu Val Ala Il #e Asp Lys Asp Trp Ile         115           #       120           #       125 Pro Asn Ala Glu Gly Thr Ser Leu Tyr Ile Ar #g Pro Phe Ile Ile Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Thr Glu Pro Phe Leu Gly Val Ala Ala Ser Hi #s Thr Tyr Lys Leu Leu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ile Ile Leu Ser Pro Val Gly Ser Tyr Tyr Ly #s Glu Gly Ile Lys Pro                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Lys Ile Ala Val Glu Ser Glu Phe Val Ar #g Ala Val Lys Gly Gly             180       #           185       #           190 Thr Gly Asn Ala Lys Thr Ala Gly Asn Tyr Al #a Ser Ser Leu Lys Ala         195           #       200           #       205 Gln Gln Val Ala Glu Glu Lys Gly Phe Ser Gl #n Val Leu Trp Leu Asp     210               #   215               #   220 Gly Ile Glu Lys Lys Tyr Ile Glu Glu Val Gl #y Ser Met Asn Ile Phe 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Phe Lys Ile Asn Gly Glu Ile Val Thr Pro Me #t Leu Asn Gly Ser Ile                 245   #               250   #               255 Leu Glu Gly Ile Thr Arg Asn Ser Val Ile Al #a Leu Leu Lys His Trp             260       #           265       #           270 Gly Leu Gln Val Ser Glu Arg Lys Ile Ala Il #e Asp Glu Val Ile Gln         275           #       280           #       285 Ala His Lys Asp Gly Ile Leu Glu Glu Ala Ph #e Gly Thr Gly Thr Ala     290               #   295               #   300 Ala Val Ile Ser Pro Val Gly Glu Leu Ile Tr #p Gln Asp Glu Thr Leu 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Ser Ile Asn Asn Gly Glu Thr Gly Glu Ile Al #a Lys Lys Leu Tyr Asp                 325   #               330   #               335 Thr Ile Thr Gly Ile Gln Lys Gly Ala Val Al #a Asp Glu Phe Gly Trp             340       #           345       #           350 Thr Thr Glu Val Ala Ala Leu Thr Glu Ser Ly #s         355           #       360 <210> SEQ ID NO 21 <211> LENGTH: 1162 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 21 gcacgagtac agcccaaggc ccgcatcggc accccgttcc cgcgcgacac gc #tccgcagc     60 atcctcgtcc agatgacggc ggcgtccaac tgccggaggg ggtccatccg ct #actggctc    120 agcgccggcg gcggcgactt cctcctgtcc tccgccggct gcgccgggcc gg #cgttctac    180 gccgtcgtca tcccgaccga ctactcccag tgccgccacg gcgtgcgcgc gg #tgaccacg    240 tcggtgccca tgaagccgcc gctgttcgcc accatgaaga acgtcaacta cc #tccccaac    300 gtgctgtcca tcatggacgc cgaggaccgc ggcgcgttcg cgtcggtgtg gg #tggacggc    360 gagggcaacg tcgccgaggg gcccatggtg aacgtggcgt tcgtcacggc cg #ccggcgag    420 ctggtgctcc cggcgttcga caagatcctc gccgggtgca ccgccaagcg gc #tgctcgcg    480 ctggcgccga ggctggtgga gtccggcctc ctcaaggccg tcaccacccg cc #acatcgcc    540 gccgacgagg ccaagcgctg ctccgccgag atggcgttcg tcggcagcgg cc #tccccgtc    600 ctgcccatcg tcgagtggga cgaccagctc atcggcgacg ggaaggtggg ga #agacgatg    660 atggcgctgt cggatctgct ctgggaggac atgaaatcgg ggccggacag ga #tcgcagtc    720 ccgtacaagt gatggattat tggagttggg tgaggctcct cgggcgtacg tc #agaaagag    780 gtgtgctacc gacgtgtgga ttcatgacgg taagcttcac ctgttaggga tt #cacgtctc    840 ttcgacttta tatgagagga gctacgtcca tcggagatag gaggagaagg gc #aacgtgcc    900 gagtatatat gtgtagtgta cgtacgcgtg agcgagctga gatggatatg at #gcagtatc    960 gtgtcgtttc gtttcgtttc tccttgtgtt catgtgtggc ttgtatggtt tt #ttatctgt   1020 acgtgtcgtc aacgtaatcc ttgtattttg cggtgtatca gtactgtatg ag #tgtatgtg   1080 tttatcgatt gatcattaag tgaatgaata atggattctc tcgatttcaa at #gtaaaaaa   1140 aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aa            #                   #               1162 <210> SEQ ID NO 22 <211> LENGTH: 243 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 22 Ala Arg Val Gln Pro Lys Ala Arg Ile Gly Th #r Pro Phe Pro Arg Asp   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Thr Leu Arg Ser Ile Leu Val Gln Met Thr Al #a Ala Ser Asn Cys Arg              20      #             25      #             30 Arg Gly Ser Ile Arg Tyr Trp Leu Ser Ala Gl #y Gly Gly Asp Phe Leu          35          #         40          #         45 Leu Ser Ser Ala Gly Cys Ala Gly Pro Ala Ph #e Tyr Ala Val Val Ile      50              #     55              #     60 Pro Thr Asp Tyr Ser Gln Cys Arg His Gly Va #l Arg Ala Val Thr Thr  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Val Pro Met Lys Pro Pro Leu Phe Ala Th #r Met Lys Asn Val Asn                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Tyr Leu Pro Asn Val Leu Ser Ile Met Asp Al #a Glu Asp Arg Gly Ala             100       #           105       #           110 Phe Ala Ser Val Trp Val Asp Gly Glu Gly As #n Val Ala Glu Gly Pro         115           #       120           #       125 Met Val Asn Val Ala Phe Val Thr Ala Ala Gl #y Glu Leu Val Leu Pro     130               #   135               #   140 Ala Phe Asp Lys Ile Leu Ala Gly Cys Thr Al #a Lys Arg Leu Leu Ala 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Leu Ala Pro Arg Leu Val Glu Ser Gly Leu Le #u Lys Ala Val Thr Thr                 165   #               170   #               175 Arg His Ile Ala Ala Asp Glu Ala Lys Arg Cy #s Ser Ala Glu Met Ala             180       #           185       #           190 Phe Val Gly Ser Gly Leu Pro Val Leu Pro Il #e Val Glu Trp Asp Asp         195           #       200           #       205 Gln Leu Ile Gly Asp Gly Lys Val Gly Lys Th #r Met Met Ala Leu Ser     210               #   215               #   220 Asp Leu Leu Trp Glu Asp Met Lys Ser Gly Pr #o Asp Arg Ile Ala Val 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Pro Tyr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 23 <211> LENGTH: 1045 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 23 gcacgaggct atggttattc ctatggatga ccacatggtc cacagaggcc ac #ggtgtctt     60 tgatactgca gcaataatgg atggatacct atatgagcta gatcaacacc tt #gatcgctt    120 tttaaggtca gcatccatgt ctaaaataga tcccccattt gatcgaggaa gc #ataagaag    180 aatactcata caaactgtaa gtgcttccaa gtgtagaaaa ggatcactaa ga #tattggct    240 ctcggcagga cctggcgact ttcagttatc tccctcttgt tgccaccgat ca #agtctgta    300 tgcgatagta atacaggatc tgtcaccatc ctcacctaat ttcaggggcg tt #aaagttgt    360 cacttcatct attcccatta aacaccccaa gtttgctatc actaagagtg tg #aactatct    420 tccaaatgtg ctctcaaagg tggaagctga agaagctggt gcttttgtag gc #atttggct    480 tgatggtgaa ggttttgttg ctgaagggcc taatatgaat gtggcctttg tc #actaaaga    540 taaggaactt ataatgccac actttgacaa aattctaagt ggctgcacag ct #aagagagt    600 tttaaccctt gctgagagct tgttaaggga gggtaagctt aaagggataa gg #gtgaaaac    660 tgtgactgtc gaggaaggta agcaagcaga tgaaatgatg cttcttggca gc #ggagttct    720 tgtttgccct gtagtgcaat gggatgagca ggttattggt gatggcaaag aa #ggccctat    780 aacgcaggct ctcttaaatc taattgttga ggacatgaaa tcaggtccct cc #actgttcg    840 tatacctgtt ccttattgac acaactttat ttccttctct tcattttgta at #gaagatta    900 atcagtagtt gtgatgcccc tacttctaca gggaggaatg actattaata ac #ttcattgt    960 ctaatggttt ttagagcttg tagtgttata agaaactcta ttccatggag ct #tagttttc   1020 aaatgttttt gtggtctaaa aaaaa           #                   #             1045 <210> SEQ ID NO 24 <211> LENGTH: 285 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 24 His Glu Ala Met Val Ile Pro Met Asp Asp Hi #s Met Val His Arg Gly   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 His Gly Val Phe Asp Thr Ala Ala Ile Met As #p Gly Tyr Leu Tyr Glu              20      #             25      #             30 Leu Asp Gln His Leu Asp Arg Phe Leu Arg Se #r Ala Ser Met Ser Lys          35          #         40          #         45 Ile Asp Pro Pro Phe Asp Arg Gly Ser Ile Ar #g Arg Ile Leu Ile Gln      50              #     55              #     60 Thr Val Ser Ala Ser Lys Cys Arg Lys Gly Se #r Leu Arg Tyr Trp Leu  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Ala Gly Pro Gly Asp Phe Gln Leu Ser Pr #o Ser Cys Cys His Arg                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ser Ser Leu Tyr Ala Ile Val Ile Gln Asp Le #u Ser Pro Ser Ser Pro             100       #           105       #           110 Asn Phe Arg Gly Val Lys Val Val Thr Ser Se #r Ile Pro Ile Lys His         115           #       120           #       125 Pro Lys Phe Ala Ile Thr Lys Ser Val Asn Ty #r Leu Pro Asn Val Leu     130               #   135               #   140 Ser Lys Val Glu Ala Glu Glu Ala Gly Ala Ph #e Val Gly Ile Trp Leu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Asp Gly Glu Gly Phe Val Ala Glu Gly Pro As #n Met Asn Val Ala Phe                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Thr Lys Asp Lys Glu Leu Ile Met Pro Hi #s Phe Asp Lys Ile Leu             180       #           185       #           190 Ser Gly Cys Thr Ala Lys Arg Val Leu Thr Le #u Ala Glu Ser Leu Leu         195           #       200           #       205 Arg Glu Gly Lys Leu Lys Gly Ile Arg Val Ly #s Thr Val Thr Val Glu     210               #   215               #   220 Glu Gly Lys Gln Ala Asp Glu Met Met Leu Le #u Gly Ser Gly Val Leu 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Val Cys Pro Val Val Gln Trp Asp Glu Gln Va #l Ile Gly Asp Gly Lys                 245   #               250   #               255 Glu Gly Pro Ile Thr Gln Ala Leu Leu Asn Le #u Ile Val Glu Asp Met             260       #           265       #           270 Lys Ser Gly Pro Ser Thr Val Arg Ile Pro Va #l Pro Tyr         275           #       280           #       285 <210> SEQ ID NO 25 <211> LENGTH: 1323 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 25 gcacgagagg aaccccactc acaagtcccc tgaggttgaa aatgatggtg at #tttaaagt     60 tcatctgttc tcttcatcat ccgagttgct tgaaaagctt catgaaaaat gg #agttcagt    120 ggagaaacca ccatacccag ctatgtattc tagtatttat ggaggtatca ta #cttgatcc    180 agcaatgatg gtaatcccca ttgatgatca catggttcac agagggcatg gt #gtgtttga    240 tacagctatt gttctagatg gatacctcta tgagttggat gttcaccttg ac #agattcct    300 aagttcagcc tccaaagcaa agatatcctc tcccttttct cgatcagtgc tt #cacagcat    360 tctaatacaa ctaactgcag catcaaaatg caagaaggga actctaagat ac #tggctcag    420 tgcaggtcct ggagatttct tgctatcatc agcaggatgt ccaacatctg ca #ttctatgc    480 agtagtcatt gaccaagatg tttcccaatg caaagaggga gttaaagtga tt #acttccaa    540 cataccaatg aagccttctc tatttgccac agccaaaaat gtgaactatc tt #ccaaatgt    600 cctttcagta atggaagctg aagagaaagg agcatcttct tctatatggg tt #gatgagga    660 aggttatatt gctgaaggtc caaatgtgaa tgttgctttc ataactcaag ac #aaggaact    720 tgtcatgcct ccttttgata acatcttaca tggttgcact gcaaaaaggc tc #cttgaact    780 ggcacccaag ttggttgatc aagggcttct gaaaggtgta gcaactaaaa aa #ctaactgt    840 ggaggaagct aaagctgctg ctgaaatgat gtatgtagga agcacgcttc ct #ctgttgcc    900 tatcatcgtc tgggatgatc aacccattgg caacggaagg gtgggagaat ta #acaatgtt    960 actttcggat atgctttggg atgatatggt agctggccct ggcacacaga gg #atacctgt   1020 tccttatgtt gagtaaacct acaaagtcat caaattacag gctgggaaca ac #tttcttac   1080 ttttctatgt catgttccta ggagttctcc ttgcaaagat ttatcaagag gt #ttctcttt   1140 gtatttgctt tttgtatttc aagtgtgaac actgaacaag tcctaaagtg aa #gcaccagg   1200 tgtttcctgc aacgcaaaat ttacgtagca gataaatagt ccttgaactg tt #tcacgttg   1260 ttgtattgat ataataataa taatgaagac ccttcatgct gctttgtgcc tg #aaaaaaaa   1320 aaa                   #                   #                   #           1323 <210> SEQ ID NO 26 <211> LENGTH: 297 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 26 Met Tyr Ser Ser Ile Tyr Gly Gly Ile Ile Le #u Asp Pro Ala Met Met   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Ile Pro Ile Asp Asp His Met Val His Ar #g Gly His Gly Val Phe              20      #             25      #             30 Asp Thr Ala Ile Val Leu Asp Gly Tyr Leu Ty #r Glu Leu Asp Val His          35          #         40          #         45 Leu Asp Arg Phe Leu Ser Ser Ala Ser Lys Al #a Lys Ile Ser Ser Pro      50              #     55              #     60 Phe Ser Arg Ser Val Leu His Ser Ile Leu Il #e Gln Leu Thr Ala Ala  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Lys Cys Lys Lys Gly Thr Leu Arg Tyr Tr #p Leu Ser Ala Gly Pro                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Asp Phe Leu Leu Ser Ser Ala Gly Cys Pr #o Thr Ser Ala Phe Tyr             100       #           105       #           110 Ala Val Val Ile Asp Gln Asp Val Ser Gln Cy #s Lys Glu Gly Val Lys         115           #       120           #       125 Val Ile Thr Ser Asn Ile Pro Met Lys Pro Se #r Leu Phe Ala Thr Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Lys Asn Val Asn Tyr Leu Pro Asn Val Leu Se #r Val Met Glu Ala Glu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Glu Lys Gly Ala Ser Ser Ser Ile Trp Val As #p Glu Glu Gly Tyr Ile                 165   #               170   #               175 Ala Glu Gly Pro Asn Val Asn Val Ala Phe Il #e Thr Gln Asp Lys Glu             180       #           185       #           190 Leu Val Met Pro Pro Phe Asp Asn Ile Leu Hi #s Gly Cys Thr Ala Lys         195           #       200           #       205 Arg Leu Leu Glu Leu Ala Pro Lys Leu Val As #p Gln Gly Leu Leu Lys     210               #   215               #   220 Gly Val Ala Thr Lys Lys Leu Thr Val Glu Gl #u Ala Lys Ala Ala Ala 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Glu Met Met Tyr Val Gly Ser Thr Leu Pro Le #u Leu Pro Ile Ile Val                 245   #               250   #               255 Trp Asp Asp Gln Pro Ile Gly Asn Gly Arg Va #l Gly Glu Leu Thr Met             260       #           265       #           270 Leu Leu Ser Asp Met Leu Trp Asp Asp Met Va #l Ala Gly Pro Gly Thr         275           #       280           #       285 Gln Arg Ile Pro Val Pro Tyr Val Glu     290               #   295 <210> SEQ ID NO 27 <211> LENGTH: 542 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 27 gcacgaggtt atcttcatct ggctgtacaa acccagccct ctatgctgtt gt #tattgaaa     60 gcccatcctt acaagtaccg tcctgctgca gagtggtcac atcatctata cc #gataaagt    120 ctcctcaatt tgcagtcatg aaaagcgtga attacttgcc caatgcactc ac #caaggtgg    180 aaggagaaga gaatggtgca tttactggca tttggctaga cgatgagggc tt #cgttgcag    240 agggttcgaa catgaatgtt ggcttcgtga caaagaacaa ggagcttctc at #gcctcgtt    300 ttgacaagat cctgagtggg tgcacagcaa gacgggttct gaccctcgct ga #gcatctag    360 tagctcatgg aaagctcagc agggtaatat caaggaatgt gagtgttgag ga #agggaaga    420 tggccgatga gatgatgctc atcggtagtg gcattcttgt caaacctgtt gt #tcagtggg    480 atgataagat aattggttct ggacaagaag gcccgatagc tcaagcgtag ta #tgacataa    540 tt                   #                   #                   #             542 <210> SEQ ID NO 28 <211> LENGTH: 180 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 28 Thr Arg Leu Ser Ser Ser Gly Cys Thr Asn Pr #o Ala Leu Tyr Ala Val   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Ile Glu Ser Pro Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Se #r Cys Cys Arg Val Val              20      #             25      #             30 Thr Ser Ser Ile Pro Ile Lys Ser Pro Gln Ph #e Ala Val Met Lys Ser          35          #         40          #         45 Val Asn Tyr Leu Pro Asn Ala Leu Thr Lys Va #l Glu Gly Glu Glu Asn      50              #     55              #     60 Gly Ala Phe Thr Gly Ile Trp Leu Asp Asp Gl #u Gly Phe Val Ala Glu  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Gly Ser Asn Met Asn Val Gly Phe Val Thr Ly #s Asn Lys Glu Leu Leu                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Met Pro Arg Phe Asp Lys Ile Leu Ser Gly Cy #s Thr Ala Arg Arg Val             100       #           105       #           110 Leu Thr Leu Ala Glu His Leu Val Ala His Gl #y Lys Leu Ser Arg Val         115           #       120           #       125 Ile Ser Arg Asn Val Ser Val Glu Glu Gly Ly #s Met Ala Asp Glu Met     130               #   135               #   140 Met Leu Ile Gly Ser Gly Ile Leu Val Lys Pr #o Val Val Gln Trp Asp 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Asp Lys Ile Ile Gly Ser Gly Gln Glu Gly Pr #o Ile Ala Gln Ala Leu                 165   #               170   #               175 Tyr Asp Leu Ile             180 <210> SEQ ID NO 29 <211> LENGTH: 288 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Methanococcus jannaschii <400> SEQUENCE: 29 Met Lys Ile Tyr Leu Asn Gly Lys Phe Val As #p Glu Lys Asp Ala Lys   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Ser Val Phe Asp His Gly Leu Leu Tyr Gl #y Asp Gly Val Phe Glu              20      #             25      #             30 Gly Ile Arg Ala Tyr Asp Gly Val Val Phe Me #t Leu Lys Glu His Ile          35          #         40          #         45 Asp Arg Leu Tyr Asp Ser Ala Lys Ser Leu Cy #s Ile Asp Ile Pro Leu      50              #     55              #     60 Thr Lys Glu Glu Met Ile Asp Val Val Leu Gl #u Thr Leu Arg Val Asn  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asn Leu Arg Asp Ala Tyr Ile Arg Leu Val Va #l Thr Arg Gly Val Gly                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Asp Leu Gly Leu Asp Pro Arg Lys Cys Gly Ly #s Pro Thr Ile Phe Cys             100       #           105       #           110 Ile Ala Ile Pro Met Pro Pro Leu Leu Gly Gl #u Asp Gly Ile Arg Ala         115           #       120           #       125 Ile Thr Val Ser Val Arg Arg Leu Pro Val As #p Val Leu Asn Pro Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Val Lys Ser Leu Asn Tyr Leu Asn Ser Val Le #u Ala Lys Ile Gln Ala 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Asn Tyr Ala Gly Val Asp Glu Ala Phe Leu Le #u Asp Asp Lys Gly Phe                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Val Glu Gly Thr Gly Asp Asn Ile Phe Il #e Val Lys Asn Gly Val             180       #           185       #           190 Leu Lys Thr Pro Pro Val Tyr Gln Ser Ile Le #u Lys Gly Ile Thr Arg         195           #       200           #       205 Asp Val Val Ile Lys Leu Ala Lys Glu Glu Gl #y Ile Glu Val Val Glu     210               #   215               #   220 Glu Pro Leu Thr Leu His Asp Leu Tyr Thr Al #a Asp Glu Leu Phe Ile 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Thr Gly Thr Ala Ala Glu Ile Val Pro Val Ph #e Glu Ile Asp Gly Arg                 245   #               250   #               255 Val Ile Asn Asn Lys Gln Val Gly Glu Ile Th #r Lys Lys Leu Lys Glu             260       #           265       #           270 Lys Phe Lys Asp Ile Arg Thr Lys Trp Gly Il #e Lys Val Tyr Asp Glu         275           #       280           #       285 <210> SEQ ID NO 30 <211> LENGTH: 1062 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 30 gcaaccacca ttatcggacc ctcctctgcc tgtccctgca aataaaaaca tt #cttgtttg     60 ggttggagat gaacttttgc cccgtaacag tgcaaaggtt tcagtgtttg at #tcagttgt    120 acaaggagga gatgctgttt gggaaggttt acgtatatat gatggaaaag ta #ttcaaatt    180 agatgaacat ttggacagat tgtttgattc tgcaaaagct atggccttca gc #aatgtgcc    240 tactcgtgat tggattaagg atgccatctt taagactctg attgcaaatg ga #atgttcaa    300 caatgctcat ataaggctca cgctcacccg tgggaaaaag gtgacatctg ga #atgagtcc    360 agctttcaat ctttatgggt gtgccttgat tgtgcttgca gagtggaaac ca #ccagttta    420 tgataactct catgggataa aattggttac tgccaccaca cgtcgaaatt ct #ccaaatag    480 tatagatccc aagattcatc acaacaatct tatcaacaat attctggcaa ag #atagaagg    540 taatcttgcc caggctgagg atgccattat gctagataag gatggctttg ta #tcagaaac    600 aaacgcaaca aatattttta tggtcaaaaa gggaattgta ttgacacctc at #gctgacta    660 ttgccttcca ggcattacgc gagcaactgt catggatctt gtggtgaaag aa #aactttgt    720 gttacatgaa cgacgcatta gtctgtcaga attccatgct gcagatgagg ta #tggacaac    780 cggaacaatg ggtgaaatca caccggttgt aatgattgat ggacgtgaaa tc #ggcgacgg    840 gaaaattggt ccagtcacta gacaaatcca gaaggcatac aagatcctga ca #gcagggca    900 aggagtaccg ataccggggg ttgctgaggt gtaattgtct aagatgcatc cc #tttatcta    960 gttaggatca gtcccccaag aagctcaatg atatcaggct agcgcaacaa ta #aattaata   1020 atctgcattg atcactgatg ttcaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aa     #                   #1062 <210> SEQ ID NO 31 <211> LENGTH: 310 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 31 Gln Pro Pro Leu Ser Asp Pro Pro Leu Pro Va #l Pro Ala Asn Lys Asn   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Ile Leu Val Trp Val Gly Asp Glu Leu Leu Pr #o Arg Asn Ser Ala Lys              20      #             25      #             30 Val Ser Val Phe Asp Ser Val Val Gln Gly Gl #y Asp Ala Val Trp Glu          35          #         40          #         45 Gly Leu Arg Ile Tyr Asp Gly Lys Val Phe Ly #s Leu Asp Glu His Leu      50              #     55              #     60 Asp Arg Leu Phe Asp Ser Ala Lys Ala Met Al #a Phe Ser Asn Val Pro  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Thr Arg Asp Trp Ile Lys Asp Ala Ile Phe Ly #s Thr Leu Ile Ala Asn                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Met Phe Asn Asn Ala His Ile Arg Leu Th #r Leu Thr Arg Gly Lys             100       #           105       #           110 Lys Val Thr Ser Gly Met Ser Pro Ala Phe As #n Leu Tyr Gly Cys Ala         115           #       120           #       125 Leu Ile Val Leu Ala Glu Trp Lys Pro Pro Va #l Tyr Asp Asn Ser His     130               #   135               #   140 Gly Ile Lys Leu Val Thr Ala Thr Thr Arg Ar #g Asn Ser Pro Asn Ser 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ile Asp Pro Lys Ile His His Asn Asn Leu Il #e Asn Asn Ile Leu Ala                 165   #               170   #               175 Lys Ile Glu Gly Asn Leu Ala Gln Ala Glu As #p Ala Ile Met Leu Asp             180       #           185       #           190 Lys Asp Gly Phe Val Ser Glu Thr Asn Ala Th #r Asn Ile Phe Met Val         195           #       200           #       205 Lys Lys Gly Ile Val Leu Thr Pro His Ala As #p Tyr Cys Leu Pro Gly     210               #   215               #   220 Ile Thr Arg Ala Thr Val Met Asp Leu Val Va #l Lys Glu Asn Phe Val 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Leu His Glu Arg Arg Ile Ser Leu Ser Glu Ph #e His Ala Ala Asp Glu                 245   #               250   #               255 Val Trp Thr Thr Gly Thr Met Gly Glu Ile Th #r Pro Val Val Met Ile             260       #           265       #           270 Asp Gly Arg Glu Ile Gly Asp Gly Lys Ile Gl #y Pro Val Thr Arg Gln         275           #       280           #       285 Ile Gln Lys Ala Tyr Lys Ile Leu Thr Ala Gl #y Gln Gly Val Pro Ile     290               #   295               #   300 Pro Gly Val Ala Glu Val 305                 3 #10 <210> SEQ ID NO 32 <211> LENGTH: 1186 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 32 gcacgagtca aacttgaaga acacttggat agattgtttg attctacaaa ag #ctatggcc     60 ttcagcaatg tgcccagtcg tgattggatt aaggatgcaa tatttaagac tc #ttaacgca    120 aatgggatgt tcaataatgc acatataagg ctcactctca cccgtgggaa ga #aggtgaca    180 tctggaatga gtccaacttt caatctatat gggtgtgtct tgattgtact tg #cagagtgg    240 aaaccaccag tttatgataa ctcacatggg ataaagttgg taactgccgc ca #cacgtcgt    300 aattctccaa atagcgtaga ttcgaagata catcacaaca atcttattaa ca #acattctg    360 gcaaagatag aaggtaatct tgcacaggct gaggatgcta tcatgctaga tc #aagatggt    420 tttgtatcag aaacaaatgc aacaaacata tttatggtta agaagggcat tg #tattgaca    480 cctcatgcgg actactgcct tccaggaatt acccgtgcaa ctgtcaagga tc #ttgttgtg    540 aaagaaaacc tggtattaca tgaacggcga attagtctat ctgaatttca tg #ctgcagat    600 gaggtgtgga caaccggaac aatgggtgaa attacaccgg ttgtgatgat tg #acgggcgt    660 gaaattggtg atgggaaaat cggtctggtc acaagacaaa tccagagcgc at #acaaagtc    720 ctgacagcag ggttgggagt aacaattccc aggaatgcgg aggcataatc at #ttgcgcag    780 acattcttct tgtccttttg aaaaggagaa ggcacctatt atctatggac aa #actttcag    840 ggttcagttt cgagtaatga taataaatac ccctccatcc ggaattactt gt #cgtagaaa    900 tgggtaaaaa tgaatgtatc tagaactaaa aatacgttta gatacatcta tt #tctccgac    960 aggtatttcc ggatggaggg agtagtagct agcgttcaaa gaagcaccca gt #gaaagtgg   1020 cacaccggac agaaaactga gtattcgaaa aatactggct gggtctgtga at #tcatgatt   1080 tactgtgtgc ctgtgtgcgc cgaacctgtg gctgatcctg gacacagaac ag #aaaataga   1140 atattatatg cggttttatt ttctgctaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa    #               1186 <210> SEQ ID NO 33 <211> LENGTH: 255 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 33 Ala Arg Val Lys Leu Glu Glu His Leu Asp Ar #g Leu Phe Asp Ser Thr   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Lys Ala Met Ala Phe Ser Asn Val Pro Ser Ar #g Asp Trp Ile Lys Asp              20      #             25      #             30 Ala Ile Phe Lys Thr Leu Asn Ala Asn Gly Me #t Phe Asn Asn Ala His          35          #         40          #         45 Ile Arg Leu Thr Leu Thr Arg Gly Lys Lys Va #l Thr Ser Gly Met Ser      50              #     55              #     60 Pro Thr Phe Asn Leu Tyr Gly Cys Val Leu Il #e Val Leu Ala Glu Trp  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Lys Pro Pro Val Tyr Asp Asn Ser His Gly Il #e Lys Leu Val Thr Ala                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ala Thr Arg Arg Asn Ser Pro Asn Ser Val As #p Ser Lys Ile His His             100       #           105       #           110 Asn Asn Leu Ile Asn Asn Ile Leu Ala Lys Il #e Glu Gly Asn Leu Ala         115           #       120           #       125 Gln Ala Glu Asp Ala Ile Met Leu Asp Gln As #p Gly Phe Val Ser Glu     130               #   135               #   140 Thr Asn Ala Thr Asn Ile Phe Met Val Lys Ly #s Gly Ile Val Leu Thr 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Pro His Ala Asp Tyr Cys Leu Pro Gly Ile Th #r Arg Ala Thr Val Lys                 165   #               170   #               175 Asp Leu Val Val Lys Glu Asn Leu Val Leu Hi #s Glu Arg Arg Ile Ser             180       #           185       #           190 Leu Ser Glu Phe His Ala Ala Asp Glu Val Tr #p Thr Thr Gly Thr Met         195           #       200           #       205 Gly Glu Ile Thr Pro Val Val Met Ile Asp Gl #y Arg Glu Ile Gly Asp     210               #   215               #   220 Gly Lys Ile Gly Leu Val Thr Arg Gln Ile Gl #n Ser Ala Tyr Lys Val 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Leu Thr Ala Gly Leu Gly Val Thr Ile Pro Ar #g Asn Ala Glu Ala                 245   #               250   #               255 <210> SEQ ID NO 34 <211> LENGTH: 210 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Escherichia coli <400> SEQUENCE: 34 Met Thr Thr Lys Lys Ala Asp Tyr Trp Asn Gl #y Met Val Arg Trp Asp   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Ala Lys Val His Val Met Ser His Ala His Ty #r Gly Thr Ser Val Gly              20      #             25      #             30 Arg Cys Tyr Asp Ser His Lys Gly Val Val Ar #g His Arg His Met Arg          35          #         40          #         45 His Asp Ser Ala Lys Tyr Arg Val Ser Ser As #p Met Ala Cys Arg Asp      50              #     55              #     60 Val Arg Lys Asn Asn Thr Ser Ala Tyr Arg Va #l Gly Asp Val Gly Met  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Gly Val Asn Ala Gly Tyr Ser Thr Asp Val Al #a Ala Trp Gly Ala Tyr                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Gly Ala Ala Gly Asp Ala Met Val Ser Ser Tr #p Asn Arg Ala Ala Asn             100       #           105       #           110 Thr Thr Ala Ala Lys Ala Gly Gly Asn Tyr Se #r Ser Val Gly Ser Ala         115           #       120           #       125 Arg Arg His Gly Tyr Gly Ala Asp Val Asn Gl #y Tyr Ser Gly Ala Gly     130               #   135               #   140 Asn Val Lys Asp Gly Val Thr Thr Ser Ser Al #a Gly Thr Arg Asp Ala 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Lys Ala Lys Gly Val Arg Val Ser Arg Ser Ty #r Ala Asp Val Met Ser                 165   #               170   #               175 Gly Thr Ala Ala Thr Val Arg Ser Val Asp Gl #y Val Gly Gly Arg Cys             180       #           185       #           190 Gly Val Thr Lys Arg Ala Gly Thr Gly Thr As #p Lys Trp Gly Trp Asp         195           #       200           #       205 Val Asn     210 <210> SEQ ID NO 35 <211> LENGTH: 1626 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 35 gcacgagagc ccggggagaa cgtgtgggtg gacatcgacg tgctcatgac gc #acgacgtc     60 tgcgggcccg gcaccatcgg catcttcaag aaggagttcg gggaggatgc ca #aggtctgg    120 gaccgcgaga aggtcgtcat catccccgac cactacatct tcaccagcga cg #agcgcgcc    180 aaccgcaacg tcgatatcct cagggacttc tgtctggagc agaacatcaa gt #acttctat    240 gatatcaagg acctcagcga tttcagggct aatccagact acaagggtgt ct #gccacatt    300 gcacttgctc aggaaggcca ctgccgacca ggcgaggttc tcctgggtac tg #attctcat    360 acgtgcaatg ctggagcctt tggtcaattt gcaaccggaa ttggaaacac tg #atgcaggt    420 tttgtgatgg gcactggaaa ggctcttctc aaggtgccac ctactatcag gt #ttgtatta    480 gatggagaaa tgccgcctta tttacttgcg aaggatctga ttttgcaaat ta #ttggtgag    540 atttcagtat ctggtgcaac ctacaaatcg atggagtttg ttggatcaac tg #tagaaagt    600 ctaaccatgg aagaacgtat gacactatgc aacatggttg ttgaagctgg tg #gaaagaac    660 ggtgtcgtgc ctgctgatga aactacattt aaataccttg agggtaggac at #cagttgat    720 tatcaacctg tctacagtga tgctgaggcc agatttttta gtgactaccg gt #ttgatgta    780 tcgaaactgg agccagtagt tgccaagcca cattcgcctg acaaccgtgc cc #tagcaaga    840 gaatgcaaag atgtcaagat cgaccgagtc tatattggtt cctgcactgg tg #gcaagact    900 gaggacttcc ttgctgccgc aaaggtgttc ttagcctcgg gaaagaaggt ta #aagttccc    960 acattccttg tccctgccac acaaaaggtg tggatggacg tatatagcct tc #ctgtacca   1020 ggatctggcg gcaaaacttg cgcccagata ttcgaggagg ctggttgtga ta #caccagca   1080 agtcctaatt gcggcgcttg tctgggtggc cctcgcgata cgtatgcacg ga #tgaatgaa   1140 cctacggtct gcgtgtccac cacgaacagg aacttcccgg gcaggatggg gc #acaaggaa   1200 gggcagatct acctggcgtc cccctacacc gctgcagcct cggccctgac gg #ggtacgtc   1260 acggacccca gggacttcct catgtgaacg atcttgaaac agccacagag tg #cctgcacc   1320 gctgtttttt gtgttgaacc ttagtttagg cgtgtgccct tcgttgagaa at #aaactccc   1380 atgtcgggag gctgccattg ccatttatgt tttttgcgtt atatttatta ca #gtgactgc   1440 cgataacgta gttgagcgtt acaagggaaa tacattcatt ctttccagta tc #gatggcag   1500 tcactagact ccgttcttac aaaaaaaagg catgtcgaga gatcttgtag tt #catacact   1560 tgttaaaaca cttttttgta caatgtatgg gaaagaagct cagtcgaaaa aa #aaaaaaaa   1620 aaaaaa                  #                   #                   #         1626 <210> SEQ ID NO 36 <211> LENGTH: 428 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 36 Ala Arg Glu Pro Gly Glu Asn Val Trp Val As #p Ile Asp Val Leu Met   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Thr His Asp Val Cys Gly Pro Gly Thr Ile Gl #y Ile Phe Lys Lys Glu              20      #             25      #             30 Phe Gly Glu Asp Ala Lys Val Trp Asp Arg Gl #u Lys Val Val Ile Ile          35          #         40          #         45 Pro Asp His Tyr Ile Phe Thr Ser Asp Glu Ar #g Ala Asn Arg Asn Val      50              #     55              #     60 Asp Ile Leu Arg Asp Phe Cys Leu Glu Gln As #n Ile Lys Tyr Phe Tyr  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asp Ile Lys Asp Leu Ser Asp Phe Arg Ala As #n Pro Asp Tyr Lys Gly                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Val Cys His Ile Ala Leu Ala Gln Glu Gly Hi #s Cys Arg Pro Gly Glu             100       #           105       #           110 Val Leu Leu Gly Thr Asp Ser His Thr Cys As #n Ala Gly Ala Phe Gly         115           #       120           #       125 Gln Phe Ala Thr Gly Ile Gly Asn Thr Asp Al #a Gly Phe Val Met Gly     130               #   135               #   140 Thr Gly Lys Ala Leu Leu Lys Val Pro Pro Th #r Ile Arg Phe Val Leu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Asp Gly Glu Met Pro Pro Tyr Leu Leu Ala Ly #s Asp Leu Ile Leu Gln                 165   #               170   #               175 Ile Ile Gly Glu Ile Ser Val Ser Gly Ala Th #r Tyr Lys Ser Met Glu             180       #           185       #           190 Phe Val Gly Ser Thr Val Glu Ser Leu Thr Me #t Glu Glu Arg Met Thr         195           #       200           #       205 Leu Cys Asn Met Val Val Glu Ala Gly Gly Ly #s Asn Gly Val Val Pro     210               #   215               #   220 Ala Asp Glu Thr Thr Phe Lys Tyr Leu Glu Gl #y Arg Thr Ser Val Asp 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Tyr Gln Pro Val Tyr Ser Asp Ala Glu Ala Ar #g Phe Phe Ser Asp Tyr                 245   #               250   #               255 Arg Phe Asp Val Ser Lys Leu Glu Pro Val Va #l Ala Lys Pro His Ser             260       #           265       #           270 Pro Asp Asn Arg Ala Leu Ala Arg Glu Cys Ly #s Asp Val Lys Ile Asp         275           #       280           #       285 Arg Val Tyr Ile Gly Ser Cys Thr Gly Gly Ly #s Thr Glu Asp Phe Leu     290               #   295               #   300 Ala Ala Ala Lys Val Phe Leu Ala Ser Gly Ly #s Lys Val Lys Val Pro 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Thr Phe Leu Val Pro Ala Thr Gln Lys Val Tr #p Met Asp Val Tyr Ser                 325   #               330   #               335 Leu Pro Val Pro Gly Ser Gly Gly Lys Thr Cy #s Ala Gln Ile Phe Glu             340       #           345       #           350 Glu Ala Gly Cys Asp Thr Pro Ala Ser Pro As #n Cys Gly Ala Cys Leu         355           #       360           #       365 Gly Gly Pro Arg Asp Thr Tyr Ala Arg Met As #n Glu Pro Thr Val Cys     370               #   375               #   380 Val Ser Thr Thr Asn Arg Asn Phe Pro Gly Ar #g Met Gly His Lys Glu 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Gly Gln Ile Tyr Leu Ala Ser Pro Tyr Thr Al #a Ala Ala Ser Ala Leu                 405   #               410   #               415 Thr Gly Tyr Val Thr Asp Pro Arg Asp Phe Le #u Met             420       #           425 <210> SEQ ID NO 37 <211> LENGTH: 1688 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (1673) <400> SEQUENCE: 37 gcacgagctg acgcaccacc ccgaagccct cccgccgcgc tcgcagggtg tt #cgaccctt     60 cgcccgcgcg ccctcacgac atggcctcct ccgtctccgc cgccgccaag gc #cgccgcgg    120 cgttcgcgca caaggtccag aaggagctgg ccgcgccggc gcagcgccgc gc #gggcttga    180 cccgccggac caagccgtgc agcgtgcgcg ccgtcgcttc gcccgcgcgc gc #cctgtcgt    240 ccaccggctc ggtgaagagc gcgatgacga tgacggagaa gatactggcg cg #ggcgtcgg    300 agcgcgcggc gctggagccc ggggagaacg tgtgggtcga cgtcgacgtg ct #catgacgc    360 acgacgtctg cgggcccggc gccttcgaca tcttcaagaa ggagttcggg ga #ggacgcca    420 gggtctggga ccgcgagaag ctcgtcgtca tcccggacca ctacatcttc ac #cagcgacg    480 gccgtgccaa acgcaacgtc gacatcctca gggacttctg tgcggagcag aa #catcaagt    540 acttctatga catcaaggac ctcagcgatt tcagggctaa tccggactac aa #aggcgtct    600 gccacatcgc acttgctcag gaagcccact gccgaccagg cgaggttctc tt #gggcactg    660 attctcatac atgcaatgct ggagcttttg gtcagtttgc aactggaatc gg #aaacactg    720 atgcaggttt tgtgttgggc actggaaagg ctcttctcaa ggtgccacct ac #tatcaggt    780 ttatattaga tggagagatg ccgccttatt tacttgcgaa ggatctgatt tt #gcaaatta    840 ttggagagat ttcagtatct ggtgcgacct acaaatcaat ggagtttgtt gg #atcaactg    900 tagaaagtct aaccatggaa gagcgtatga cactatgcaa catggttatt ga #agctggtg    960 gaaagaacgg tgttgtgcct gctgatgaaa ctacatttaa ataccttgag gg #taagacat   1020 cagtcgatta tgaacctgtc tacagtgatg ctcaagccag attttttagc ga #ctaccggt   1080 ttgatgtatc aaaactggag ccagtagttg ccaagccaca ttcgcctgac aa #ccgtgctc   1140 cagcacgaga atgcaaagat gtgaagatcg accgagtcta tattggttct tg #cactggtg   1200 gtaagaccga ggatttcctt gctgctgcaa aggtgttctt agcctcggga aa #gaaggtta   1260 aagttcccac atttcttgtc cctgccacac aaaaggtgtg gttggacata ta #tagcctcc   1320 ctgtaccagg atctggtggc aaaacttgct cccagatatt tgaggaggct gg #ttgtgaca   1380 caccagcaag tcctaattgt ggtgcttgtt tgggtggccc tcgtgataca ta #tgcacgga   1440 tgaatgaacc tactgtctgc gtgtccacca cgaacaggaa ctttccgggc ag #gatgggcc   1500 acaaggaagg gcaaatctac ctggcgtctc cctacactgc ggctgcctca gc #cctgacgg   1560 ggtatgttac ggaccccaag gacttcctca tgtaaccgtc ttgaaacaac aa #cagatttc   1620 atgatgtaac agagtggttg tactgctgtt tttcgtgctg aacttttgtc ca #ngcatgtc   1680 cttcgttg                 #                   #                   #        1688 <210> SEQ ID NO 38 <211> LENGTH: 443 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 38 Met Thr Met Thr Glu Lys Ile Leu Ala Arg Al #a Ser Glu Arg Ala Ala   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Leu Glu Pro Gly Glu Asn Val Trp Val Asp Va #l Asp Val Leu Met Thr              20      #             25      #             30 His Asp Val Cys Gly Pro Gly Ala Phe Asp Il #e Phe Lys Lys Glu Phe          35          #         40          #         45 Gly Glu Asp Ala Arg Val Trp Asp Arg Glu Ly #s Leu Val Val Ile Pro      50              #     55              #     60 Asp His Tyr Ile Phe Thr Ser Asp Gly Arg Al #a Lys Arg Asn Val Asp  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ile Leu Arg Asp Phe Cys Ala Glu Gln Asn Il #e Lys Tyr Phe Tyr Asp                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ile Lys Asp Leu Ser Asp Phe Arg Ala Asn Pr #o Asp Tyr Lys Gly Val             100       #           105       #           110 Cys His Ile Ala Leu Ala Gln Glu Ala His Cy #s Arg Pro Gly Glu Val         115           #       120           #       125 Leu Leu Gly Thr Asp Ser His Thr Cys Asn Al #a Gly Ala Phe Gly Gln     130               #   135               #   140 Phe Ala Thr Gly Ile Gly Asn Thr Asp Ala Gl #y Phe Val Leu Gly Thr 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Gly Lys Ala Leu Leu Lys Val Pro Pro Thr Il #e Arg Phe Ile Leu Asp                 165   #               170   #               175 Gly Glu Met Pro Pro Tyr Leu Leu Ala Lys As #p Leu Ile Leu Gln Ile             180       #           185       #           190 Ile Gly Glu Ile Ser Val Ser Gly Ala Thr Ty #r Lys Ser Met Glu Phe         195           #       200           #       205 Val Gly Ser Thr Val Glu Ser Leu Thr Met Gl #u Glu Arg Met Thr Leu     210               #   215               #   220 Cys Asn Met Val Ile Glu Ala Gly Gly Lys As #n Gly Val Val Pro Ala 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Asp Glu Thr Thr Phe Lys Tyr Leu Glu Gly Ly #s Thr Ser Val Asp Tyr                 245   #               250   #               255 Glu Pro Val Tyr Ser Asp Ala Gln Ala Arg Ph #e Phe Ser Asp Tyr Arg             260       #           265       #           270 Phe Asp Val Ser Lys Leu Glu Pro Val Val Al #a Lys Pro His Ser Pro         275           #       280           #       285 Asp Asn Arg Ala Pro Ala Arg Glu Cys Lys As #p Val Lys Ile Asp Arg     290               #   295               #   300 Val Tyr Ile Gly Ser Cys Thr Gly Gly Lys Th #r Glu Asp Phe Leu Ala 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Ala Ala Lys Val Phe Leu Ala Ser Gly Lys Ly #s Val Lys Val Pro Thr                 325   #               330   #               335 Phe Leu Val Pro Ala Thr Gln Lys Val Trp Le #u Asp Ile Tyr Ser Leu             340       #           345       #           350 Pro Val Pro Gly Ser Gly Gly Lys Thr Cys Se #r Gln Ile Phe Glu Glu         355           #       360           #       365 Ala Gly Cys Asp Thr Pro Ala Ser Pro Asn Cy #s Gly Ala Cys Leu Gly     370               #   375               #   380 Gly Pro Arg Asp Thr Tyr Ala Arg Met Asn Gl #u Pro Thr Val Cys Val 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Ser Thr Thr Asn Arg Asn Phe Pro Gly Arg Me #t Gly His Lys Glu Gly                 405   #               410   #               415 Gln Ile Tyr Leu Ala Ser Pro Tyr Thr Ala Al #a Ala Ser Ala Leu Thr             420       #           425       #           430 Gly Tyr Val Thr Asp Pro Lys Asp Phe Leu Me #t         435           #       440 <210> SEQ ID NO 39 <211> LENGTH: 512 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (303)..(303) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (331) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (400) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (467) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (486) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (495) <221> NAME/KEY: unsure <222> LOCATION: (509) <400> SEQUENCE: 39 cttacagttt gccacgttgc tcttgctcaa gagggtcatt gcagaccagg cg #aggttctc     60 cttggtactg attctcatac atgcaatgct ggagcctttg gccaatttgc aa #ctggaatt    120 ggaaacactg atgctggttt tgtgatgggc actgggaagg ctcttcttaa gg #tgcctcca    180 actatcaggt ttgtattaga tggagaaatg ccaccttatt tacttgcaaa gg #atctgatt    240 ttacaaatta ttggtgagat ttctgtatct ggcgcaacat acaaatccat gg #agtttgtt    300 ggntcaactg tggaaagtct aaatatggaa nagcgaatga cactgtgcaa ca #tggttatt    360 gaagctggtg gcaagaatgg tgttgtgcct gcccgatcan actacattta ac #tatcttga    420 gggcaagaca tcagttgaat acgagcctgt catagtgatg ctcaagncaa at #ttgttagt    480 gactancggt ttgangtatc caaattggng ca        #                   #         512 <210> SEQ ID NO 40 <211> LENGTH: 127 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (109) <400> SEQUENCE: 40 Val Cys His Val Ala Leu Ala Gln Glu Gly Hi #s Cys Arg Pro Gly Glu   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Leu Leu Gly Thr Asp Ser His Thr Cys As #n Ala Gly Ala Phe Gly              20      #             25      #             30 Gln Phe Ala Thr Gly Ile Gly Asn Thr Asp Al #a Gly Phe Val Met Gly          35          #         40          #         45 Thr Gly Lys Ala Leu Leu Lys Val Pro Pro Th #r Ile Arg Phe Val Leu      50              #     55              #     60 Asp Gly Glu Met Pro Pro Tyr Leu Leu Ala Ly #s Asp Leu Ile Leu Gln  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ile Ile Gly Glu Ile Ser Val Ser Gly Ala Th #r Tyr Lys Ser Met Glu                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Phe Val Gly Ser Thr Val Glu Ser Leu Asn Me #t Glu Xaa Arg Met Thr             100       #           105       #           110 Leu Cys Asn Met Val Ile Glu Ala Gly Gly Ly #s Asn Gly Val Val         115           #       120           #       125 <210> SEQ ID NO 41 <211> LENGTH: 823 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 41 cttgagggca agacatctct gccatatgaa cctgtttata gtgacgatca ag #caagattt     60 ctcgcagagt atagatttga tgtctcaaaa ttggagccag tggtggccaa gc #ctcattct    120 ccggataatc gtgctttggc aagagagtgc aaggatgtga aaattgacag ag #tatacata    180 ggatcttgta caggtggcaa aacagaggat ttcatggctg cagcaaaagt tt #ttctggca    240 tcaggtaaac aggtcaaagt tcctacattt cttgtgcytg caacacaaaa gg #tttggatg    300 gacttgtact ccctccctgt ccctggatct ggtggtaaga catgctcaca ga #tatttgaa    360 gaagttgggt gtgacacacc agctagtcct agttgtggtg cttgtttggg tg #gcccaaaa    420 gatacttacg cacgcatgaa tgaacctaag gtttgtgttt caactacgaa ca #ggaacttc    480 ccgggccgaa tgggacacaa ggaaggtcaa atctatttgg cttcccctta ta #cagctgct    540 gcatctgcat tgaccggtta tgttactgat cctagagagt tcttgtagta ga #atgttgtt    600 acaatcatct cattgtgttg tactcgttgt tggttatttg tgtattctct ac #tctctact    660 agtcataagt taaaactgac aactatttaa gcttaaccaa tcttttagta tt #tctaagtt    720 gatctttaga atcattcata tatgtgggtt aggtcaattc agatcaacat ga #agttcaat    780 ttcaaattta gtagtgtttg gtcttttaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaa     #                   #823 <210> SEQ ID NO 42 <211> LENGTH: 195 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (93) <400> SEQUENCE: 42 Leu Glu Gly Lys Thr Ser Leu Pro Tyr Glu Pr #o Val Tyr Ser Asp Asp   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Gln Ala Arg Phe Leu Ala Glu Tyr Arg Phe As #p Val Ser Lys Leu Glu              20      #             25      #             30 Pro Val Val Ala Lys Pro His Ser Pro Asp As #n Arg Ala Leu Ala Arg          35          #         40          #         45 Glu Cys Lys Asp Val Lys Ile Asp Arg Val Ty #r Ile Gly Ser Cys Thr      50              #     55              #     60 Gly Gly Lys Thr Glu Asp Phe Met Ala Ala Al #a Lys Val Phe Leu Ala  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Gly Lys Gln Val Lys Val Pro Thr Phe Le #u Val Xaa Ala Thr Gln                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Lys Val Trp Met Asp Leu Tyr Ser Leu Pro Va #l Pro Gly Ser Gly Gly             100       #           105       #           110 Lys Thr Cys Ser Gln Ile Phe Glu Glu Val Gl #y Cys Asp Thr Pro Ala         115           #       120           #       125 Ser Pro Ser Cys Gly Ala Cys Leu Gly Gly Pr #o Lys Asp Thr Tyr Ala     130               #   135               #   140 Arg Met Asn Glu Pro Lys Val Cys Val Ser Th #r Thr Asn Arg Asn Phe 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Pro Gly Arg Met Gly His Lys Glu Gly Gln Il #e Tyr Leu Ala Ser Pro                 165   #               170   #               175 Tyr Thr Ala Ala Ala Ser Ala Leu Thr Gly Ty #r Val Thr Asp Pro Arg             180       #           185       #           190 Glu Phe Leu         195 <210> SEQ ID NO 43 <211> LENGTH: 530 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 43 gcacgagctt tattgctgct gcaaaggtgt tcttagcttc gggcaagaag gt #taaggttc     60 ccacttttct cgttcctgcg actcaaaagg tgtggatgga cgtgtatagt ct #ccccgtac    120 caggatctgg tggcaaaaca tgctcccaga tatttgaaga ggctggttgt ga #tacaccag    180 ctagtcctaa ttgtggtgct tgtttgggtg gtcctcgtga tacatatgca cg #gatgaatg    240 aacctacggt ctgtgtatca acgacgaaca ggaacttccc gggcaggatg gg #ccacaagg    300 aagggcagat ctacctggct tctcccttca ccgcggcggc ctcagctttg ac #gggatatg    360 tcacggaccc cagggacttc ctgtcgtaga gatcttgaaa acaatgaatt tg #tgttgcgg    420 accgtcctgt actggtactt tttgttcgtg ttcgaaactg tagtttagat gc #gtcatgtg    480 tgtgtcgtgc tgagaaataa gctactcaac gagtagcagt tgtaactgtt   #             530 <210> SEQ ID NO 44 <211> LENGTH: 126 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 44 Phe Ile Ala Ala Ala Lys Val Phe Leu Ala Se #r Gly Lys Lys Val Lys   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Val Pro Thr Phe Leu Val Pro Ala Thr Gln Ly #s Val Trp Met Asp Val              20      #             25      #             30 Tyr Ser Leu Pro Val Pro Gly Ser Gly Gly Ly #s Thr Cys Ser Gln Ile          35          #         40          #         45 Phe Glu Glu Ala Gly Cys Asp Thr Pro Ala Se #r Pro Asn Cys Gly Ala      50              #     55              #     60 Cys Leu Gly Gly Pro Arg Asp Thr Tyr Ala Ar #g Met Asn Glu Pro Thr  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Val Cys Val Ser Thr Thr Asn Arg Asn Phe Pr #o Gly Arg Met Gly His                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Lys Glu Gly Gln Ile Tyr Leu Ala Ser Pro Ph #e Thr Ala Ala Ala Ser             100       #           105       #           110 Ala Leu Thr Gly Tyr Val Thr Asp Pro Arg As #p Phe Leu Ser         115           #       120           #       125 <210> SEQ ID NO 45 <211> LENGTH: 424 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Methanococcus jannaschii <400> SEQUENCE: 45 Met Gly Met Thr Ile Val Glu Lys Ile Leu Al #a Lys Ala Ser Gly Lys   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Lys Glu Val Ser Pro Gly Asp Ile Val Met Al #a Asn Ile Asp Val Ala              20      #             25      #             30 Met Val His Asp Ile Thr Gly Pro Leu Thr Va #l Asn Thr Leu Lys Glu          35          #         40          #         45 Tyr Gly Ile Glu Lys Val Trp Asn Pro Glu Ly #s Ile Val Ile Leu Phe      50              #     55              #     60 Asp His Gln Val Pro Ala Asp Ser Ile Lys Al #a Ala Glu Asn His Ile  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Leu Met Arg Lys Phe Val Lys Glu Gln Gly Il #e Lys Tyr Phe Tyr Asp                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ile Arg Glu Gly Val Cys His Gln Val Leu Pr #o Glu Lys Gly His Val             100       #           105       #           110 Ala Pro Gly Glu Val Val Val Gly Ala Asp Se #r His Thr Cys Thr His         115           #       120           #       125 Gly Ala Phe Gly Ala Phe Ala Thr Gly Ile Gl #y Ser Thr Asp Met Ala     130               #   135               #   140 His Val Phe Ala Thr Gly Lys Leu Trp Phe Ly #s Val Pro Glu Thr Ile 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Tyr Phe Asn Ile Thr Gly Asp Leu Gln Pro Ty #r Val Thr Ser Lys Asp                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Ile Leu Ser Ile Ile Gly Glu Val Gly Va #l Asp Gly Ala Thr Tyr             180       #           185       #           190 Lys Ala Cys Gln Phe Gly Gly Glu Thr Val Ly #s Lys Met Ser Ile Ala         195           #       200           #       205 Ser Arg Met Thr Met Thr Asn Met Ala Ile Gl #u Met Gly Gly Lys Thr     210               #   215               #   220 Gly Ile Ile Glu Pro Asp Glu Lys Thr Ile Gl #n Tyr Val Lys Glu Ala 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Met Lys Lys His Gly Thr Glu Arg Pro Phe Gl #u Val Ile Lys Gly Asp                 245   #               250   #               255 Glu Asp Ala Glu Phe Ala Glu Val Tyr Glu Il #e Glu Ala Asp Lys Ile             260       #           265       #           270 Glu Pro Val Phe Ala Cys Pro His Asn Val As #p Asn Val Lys Gln Ala         275           #       280           #       285 Arg Glu Val Ala Gly Lys Pro Ile Asp Gln Va #l Phe Ile Gly Ser Cys     290               #   295               #   300 Thr Asn Gly Arg Leu Glu Asp Leu Arg Met Al #a Ile Lys Ile Ile Glu 305                 3 #10                 3 #15                 3 #20 Lys His Gly Gly Ile Ala Asp Asp Val Arg Va #l Val Val Thr Pro Ala                 325   #               330   #               335 Ser Arg Glu Glu Tyr Leu Lys Ala Leu Lys Gl #u Gly Ile Ile Glu Lys             340       #           345       #           350 Phe Leu Lys Tyr Gly Cys Val Val Thr Asn Pr #o Ser Cys Ser Ala Cys         355           #       360           #       365 Met Gly Ser Leu Tyr Gly Val Leu Gly Pro Gl #y Glu Val Cys Val Ser     370               #   375               #   380 Thr Ser Asn Arg Asn Phe Arg Gly Arg Gln Gl #y Ser Leu Glu Ala Glu 385                 3 #90                 3 #95                 4 #00 Ile Tyr Leu Ala Ser Pro Ile Thr Ala Ala Al #a Cys Ala Val Lys Gly                 405   #               410   #               415 Glu Leu Val Asp Pro Arg Asp Leu             420 <210> SEQ ID NO 46 <211> LENGTH: 1033 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 46 atcatggcgg cggctctgtc ggggacggcg gtgtccacgg cagcgcttct ag #ccccaatc     60 cgagctccaa ccagcgcgtt tatccggcgc tcccagctca cctgtcatcg cc #tccactca    120 ctaaaatgcc gccgcgctgg gtccatcgtc cccgcggccg ctgctgccgc gg #cgggcagc    180 agctcgccgt cgtcagccgt tttccacggc gagtgcttcg tggtgggcga ca #atatcgac    240 accgaccaga tcatccccgc cgagcacctc actctggtgc cctccaagcc gg #acgagtac    300 cgcaagctcg gttccttcgc cttcgcgggg ctcccatccg cggcctaccc ga #cgccgttc    360 gtcgctccgg gtgaggagtc ctcccgctac gccatcattg tcggcggagc ca #acttcggg    420 tgcggttcct ctcgcgagca cgcgcccgtc gcgcttgggg ccgctggcgc ac #gcgccatt    480 gttgcsgagg gctacgcgcg catctttttt cgcaactccg tggccactgg ag #aggtgtac    540 cctctggagc tcacggacgt tggggcctgg aaggagtgca agacagggga tg #tggtcacc    600 gtggaccttg ctaactccgt ttttattaac cacacctctg gcaaggagta ca #agctgaaa    660 ccaattggtg atgctggccc tgtaattgag gcgggaggga tctttgccta cg #cccggaag    720 acaggaatga ttgcgtcgaa agctgctgca tgagggaaag cttatgcagc cg #agcctctg    780 cggagatgaa gaagtaagct ggagttagga ctaagagtta ctgcacctac tt #gatgtcga    840 cggtgtctca aaataagttg cggcctaccg aaattatgat gaatcaatca at #ttggtctt    900 tgtcacagat cgtttttttt tgttactagt acttgtacaa ttgtactcct gc #ctgctact    960 gttcttatct gtttgaataa ctgctctgtt gccaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aa #aaaaaaaa   1020 aaaaaaaaaa aaa               #                   #                   #    1033 <210> SEQ ID NO 47 <211> LENGTH: 249 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Zea mays <400> SEQUENCE: 47 Met Ala Ala Ala Leu Ser Gly Thr Ala Val Se #r Thr Ala Ala Leu Leu   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Ala Pro Ile Arg Ala Pro Thr Ser Ala Phe Il #e Arg Arg Ser Gln Leu              20      #             25      #             30 Thr Cys His Arg Leu His Ser Leu Lys Cys Ar #g Arg Ala Gly Ser Ile          35          #         40          #         45 Val Pro Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala Gly Se #r Ser Ser Pro Ser Ser      50              #     55              #     60 Ala Val Phe His Gly Glu Cys Phe Val Val Gl #y Asp Asn Ile Asp Thr  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Asp Gln Ile Ile Pro Ala Glu His Leu Thr Le #u Val Pro Ser Lys Pro                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Asp Glu Tyr Arg Lys Leu Gly Ser Phe Ala Ph #e Ala Gly Leu Pro Ser             100       #           105       #           110 Ala Ala Tyr Pro Thr Pro Phe Val Ala Pro Gl #y Glu Glu Ser Ser Arg         115           #       120           #       125 Tyr Ala Ile Ile Val Gly Gly Ala Asn Phe Gl #y Cys Gly Ser Ser Arg     130               #   135               #   140 Glu His Ala Pro Val Ala Leu Gly Ala Ala Gl #y Ala Arg Ala Ile Val 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ala Glu Gly Tyr Ala Arg Ile Phe Phe Arg As #n Ser Val Ala Thr Gly                 165   #               170   #               175 Glu Val Tyr Pro Leu Glu Leu Thr Asp Val Gl #y Ala Trp Lys Glu Cys             180       #           185       #           190 Lys Thr Gly Asp Val Val Thr Val Asp Leu Al #a Asn Ser Val Phe Ile         195           #       200           #       205 Asn His Thr Ser Gly Lys Glu Tyr Lys Leu Ly #s Pro Ile Gly Asp Ala     210               #   215               #   220 Gly Pro Val Ile Glu Ala Gly Gly Ile Phe Al #a Tyr Ala Arg Lys Thr 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Gly Met Ile Ala Ser Lys Ala Ala Ala                 245 <210> SEQ ID NO 48 <211> LENGTH: 1112 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 48 gaagtggttc tccctcacac actgaacacc atggcggcgg cggcggcggc tc #cggctcta     60 tccttggccg aggcggcgcc ggtgacagca gttctggcac cgtgtcccac gc #cctcgagg    120 acgttccgcc gccgcagctg ggtcgcggct atctgccggc ccgccctgaa at #gccaccac    180 agtcgtcccc tgaccgccgt ggtcgccgcg gctgcggctg ccgctgcggc gg #gggactcg    240 acgtcggccg gcgtattcca cggcgagtgc ttcgtcgtgg gggataacat cg #acaccgac    300 cagatcatcc cggccgagca cctgaccctg gtcccgtcca agcccgacga gt #accgcaag    360 ctcggctcgt tcgccttcgt cggcctcccc accgcggcct acccgacgcc gt #tcgtcgcc    420 cccggcgagg agaccacccg ctacgccgtc atcatcggcg gcgccaactt cg #gctgcggc    480 tcctcccgcg agcacgcgcc cgtcgccctg ggcgccgccg gcgcccgcgc cg #tcgtggcc    540 gagggctacg cgcgcatctt cttccgcaac tccgtggcca ccggtgaggt ct #acccgttg    600 gagctagcgg acactggagc ctggaaggag tgcaagaccg gggatgtggt ca #cggtggaa    660 cttgataatt gcgtcatgat caaccacaca tccggcaagc agtacaagct ga #agcctatc    720 ggcgatgccg ggccggttat tgaggcaggc gggatctttg cctatgcccg ga #agaccgga    780 atgatcgcat ccaagtctgc gtgagggaaa ggcgagtttg gtctgctgtc aa #gatagtcg    840 aggcctctgc agatagcaag taagactggg ttgtggattt gaacctattg ca #cctctatg    900 cgattgtcca tcagttgtac tgctgttttt acctaggttg tgtgtcatca gt #ggtgtttt    960 tggaataagt taaaagttac agagtactga actatgatgt attagtccat gt #gatcttat   1020 gtaacacctt atgtaataca ctcgtttata cctgccgatt tgcctatctc gt #ttcgataa   1080 aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aa        #                   #        1112 <210> SEQ ID NO 49 <211> LENGTH: 257 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Oryza sativa <400> SEQUENCE: 49 Met Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala Pro Ala Leu Se #r Leu Ala Glu Ala Ala   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Pro Val Thr Ala Val Leu Ala Pro Cys Pro Th #r Pro Ser Arg Thr Phe              20      #             25      #             30 Arg Arg Arg Ser Trp Val Ala Ala Ile Cys Ar #g Pro Ala Leu Lys Cys          35          #         40          #         45 His His Ser Arg Pro Leu Thr Ala Val Val Al #a Ala Ala Ala Ala Ala      50              #     55              #     60 Ala Ala Ala Gly Asp Ser Thr Ser Ala Gly Va #l Phe His Gly Glu Cys  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Phe Val Val Gly Asp Asn Ile Asp Thr Asp Gl #n Ile Ile Pro Ala Glu                  85  #                 90  #                 95 His Leu Thr Leu Val Pro Ser Lys Pro Asp Gl #u Tyr Arg Lys Leu Gly             100       #           105       #           110 Ser Phe Ala Phe Val Gly Leu Pro Thr Ala Al #a Tyr Pro Thr Pro Phe         115           #       120           #       125 Val Ala Pro Gly Glu Glu Thr Thr Arg Tyr Al #a Val Ile Ile Gly Gly     130               #   135               #   140 Ala Asn Phe Gly Cys Gly Ser Ser Arg Glu Hi #s Ala Pro Val Ala Leu 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Gly Ala Ala Gly Ala Arg Ala Val Val Ala Gl #u Gly Tyr Ala Arg Ile                 165   #               170   #               175 Phe Phe Arg Asn Ser Val Ala Thr Gly Glu Va #l Tyr Pro Leu Glu Leu             180       #           185       #           190 Ala Asp Thr Gly Ala Trp Lys Glu Cys Lys Th #r Gly Asp Val Val Thr         195           #       200           #       205 Val Glu Leu Asp Asn Cys Val Met Ile Asn Hi #s Thr Ser Gly Lys Gln     210               #   215               #   220 Tyr Lys Leu Lys Pro Ile Gly Asp Ala Gly Pr #o Val Ile Glu Ala Gly 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Gly Ile Phe Ala Tyr Ala Arg Lys Thr Gly Me #t Ile Ala Ser Lys Ser                 245   #               250   #               255 Ala <210> SEQ ID NO 50 <211> LENGTH: 1107 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <400> SEQUENCE: 50 tggaaatgag aaaatagacg gaagtgagag aggaggcact gagcatccaa ca #atggcctt     60 gcacgaggtt ctcttctgcc gcaaccgttc ttcctcggaa cctggcattc ac #caaactct    120 ccctctctca ctctcacact cttctaccgc gcttcctttc tttcccaact cc #caagtcat    180 caaaccctcg caaccgcgtc gcagtctctc tccaaacccc acgcgctcaa tc #cgccgcgt    240 ccgcttctcc ctccgcctcc ttccacggcc tctgctacgt cgtcggcgac aa #tatcgaca    300 ccgaccagat cattcccgcc gagtacctca ccctcgtccc ttccaagccc ga #cgagtacg    360 agaagctcgg ctcctacgcc ctcatcggcc tccccgccac ctacgccacg cg #tttcatcg    420 aacccggcga gatcaaaacc aagtacgcca tcgtcatcgg cggtgccaac tt #cggttgcg    480 gctcctcccg cgagcacgcc cccgtcgcgc tgggcgcctc cggcgccgcc gc #agtggtcg    540 cggagtcgta cgctaggatc ttctttcgga actccgtggc caccggcgag gt #gtatccgc    600 tagagtcgga gggacgcctc tgcgaggagt gcaccaccgg cgatgtggtg ac #gattgagc    660 tcggagagag ccgcttgatc aatcacacca ccggaaagga gtatcgcttg aa #accgatcg    720 gcgacgcggg tccagtgatc gaggccggtg gcatctttgc ctatgccagg aa #aaccggca    780 tgattccctc tcgttgagtt cttcaggtga gggcagtgaa ctctgctatc ct #tgcttcag    840 atgacatgct tctcaagaaa tgtattgacc caatggatgc cttagcttgg tc #cattatca    900 aataggctag aacttgcaga gatataatac atggcaatag aaagtgtgtt tt #aatggttc    960 ttgcatcagc agcttctttt ataatctcat tgatatgggg tatctcatta at #gcaaactt   1020 ttgtattcac gaaatgggac caattttgcc ccatttatca atcagaatgg ta #cttatttt   1080 tcctcgggca aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaag           #                   #           1107 <210> SEQ ID NO 51 <211> LENGTH: 263 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Glycine max <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: UNSURE <222> LOCATION: (4) <400> SEQUENCE: 51 Met Arg Lys Xaa Thr Glu Val Arg Glu Glu Al #a Leu Ser Ile Gln Gln   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Trp Pro Cys Thr Arg Phe Ser Ser Ala Ala Th #r Val Leu Pro Arg Asn              20      #             25      #             30 Leu Ala Phe Thr Lys Leu Ser Leu Ser His Se #r His Thr Leu Leu Pro          35          #         40          #         45 Arg Phe Leu Ser Phe Pro Thr Pro Lys Ser Se #r Asn Pro Arg Asn Arg      50              #     55              #     60 Val Ala Val Ser Leu Gln Thr Pro Arg Ala Gl #n Ser Ala Ala Ser Ala  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ser Pro Ser Ala Ser Phe His Gly Leu Cys Ty #r Val Val Gly Asp Asn                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Ile Asp Thr Asp Gln Ile Ile Pro Ala Glu Ty #r Leu Thr Leu Val Pro             100       #           105       #           110 Ser Lys Pro Asp Glu Tyr Glu Lys Leu Gly Se #r Tyr Ala Leu Ile Gly         115           #       120           #       125 Leu Pro Ala Thr Tyr Ala Thr Arg Phe Ile Gl #u Pro Gly Glu Ile Lys     130               #   135               #   140 Thr Lys Tyr Ala Ile Val Ile Gly Gly Ala As #n Phe Gly Cys Gly Ser 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Ser Arg Glu His Ala Pro Val Ala Leu Gly Al #a Ser Gly Ala Ala Ala                 165   #               170   #               175 Val Val Ala Glu Ser Tyr Ala Arg Ile Phe Ph #e Arg Asn Ser Val Ala             180       #           185       #           190 Thr Gly Glu Val Tyr Pro Leu Glu Ser Glu Gl #y Arg Leu Cys Glu Glu         195           #       200           #       205 Cys Thr Thr Gly Asp Val Val Thr Ile Glu Le #u Gly Glu Ser Arg Leu     210               #   215               #   220 Ile Asn His Thr Thr Gly Lys Glu Tyr Arg Le #u Lys Pro Ile Gly Asp 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Ala Gly Pro Val Ile Glu Ala Gly Gly Ile Ph #e Ala Tyr Ala Arg Lys                 245   #               250   #               255 Thr Gly Met Ile Pro Ser Arg             260 <210> SEQ ID NO 52 <211> LENGTH: 995 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 52 gcacgagcgg cggtgtccac ggcagcgctt ctagccccaa tccgagctcc aa #ccagcgcg     60 tttatccggc gctcccagct cacctgtcat cgcctccact cactaaaatg cc #gccgcgct    120 gggtccatcg tccccgcggc cgctgctgcc gcggcgggca gcagctcgcc gt #cgtcagcc    180 gttttccacg gcgagtgctt cgtggtgggc gacaatatcg acaccgacca ga #tcatcccc    240 gccgagcacc tcactctggt gccctccaag ccggacgagt accgcaagct cg #gttccttc    300 gccttcgcgg ggctcccatc cgcggcctac ccgacgccgt tcgtcgctcc gg #gtgaggag    360 tcctcccgct acgccatcat tgtcggcgga gccaacttcg ggtgcggttc ct #ctcgcgag    420 cacgcgcccg tcgcgcttgg ggccgctggc gcacgcgcca ttgttgcgga gg #gctacgcg    480 cgcatctttt ttcgcaactc cgtgggcact ggagaggtgt accctctgga gc #tcacggac    540 gttggggcct ggaaggagtg caagacaggg gatgtggtca ccgtggacct tg #ctaactcc    600 gtttttatta accacacctc tggcaaggag tacaagctga aaccaattgg tg #atgctggc    660 cctgtaattg aggcgggagg gatctttgcc tacgcccgga agacaggaat ga #ttgcgtcg    720 aaagctgctg catgagggaa agatcagctt atgcagccga gcctctgcgg ag #atgaagaa    780 gtaagctgga gttaggacta agagttactg cacctacttg atgtcgacgg tg #tctcaaaa    840 taagttgcgg cctaccgaaa ttatgatgaa tcaatcaatt tggtctttgt ca #cagatcgt    900 ttttttttgt tactagtact tgtacaattg tactcctgcc tgctactgtt ct #tatctgtt    960 tgaataactg ctctgttgcc atctaaaaaa aaaaa        #                   #      995 <210> SEQ ID NO 53 <211> LENGTH: 244 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Triticum aestivum <400> SEQUENCE: 53 Ala Arg Ala Ala Val Ser Thr Ala Ala Leu Le #u Ala Pro Ile Arg Ala   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Pro Thr Ser Ala Phe Ile Arg Arg Ser Gln Le #u Thr Cys His Arg Leu              20      #             25      #             30 His Ser Leu Lys Cys Arg Arg Ala Gly Ser Il #e Val Pro Ala Ala Ala          35          #         40          #         45 Ala Ala Ala Ala Gly Ser Ser Ser Pro Ser Se #r Ala Val Phe His Gly      50              #     55              #     60 Glu Cys Phe Val Val Gly Asp Asn Ile Asp Th #r Asp Gln Ile Ile Pro  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Ala Glu His Leu Thr Leu Val Pro Ser Lys Pr #o Asp Glu Tyr Arg Lys                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Leu Gly Ser Phe Ala Phe Ala Gly Leu Pro Se #r Ala Ala Tyr Pro Thr             100       #           105       #           110 Pro Phe Val Ala Pro Gly Glu Glu Ser Ser Ar #g Tyr Ala Ile Ile Val         115           #       120           #       125 Gly Gly Ala Asn Phe Gly Cys Gly Ser Ser Ar #g Glu His Ala Pro Val     130               #   135               #   140 Ala Leu Gly Ala Ala Gly Ala Arg Ala Ile Va #l Ala Glu Gly Tyr Ala 145                 1 #50                 1 #55                 1 #60 Arg Ile Phe Phe Arg Asn Ser Val Gly Thr Gl #y Glu Val Tyr Pro Leu                 165   #               170   #               175 Glu Leu Thr Asp Val Gly Ala Trp Lys Glu Cy #s Lys Thr Gly Asp Val             180       #           185       #           190 Val Thr Val Asp Leu Ala Asn Ser Val Phe Il #e Asn His Thr Ser Gly         195           #       200           #       205 Lys Glu Tyr Lys Leu Lys Pro Ile Gly Asp Al #a Gly Pro Val Ile Glu     210               #   215               #   220 Ala Gly Gly Ile Phe Ala Tyr Ala Arg Lys Th #r Gly Met Ile Ala Ser 225                 2 #30                 2 #35                 2 #40 Lys Ala Ala Ala <210> SEQ ID NO 54 <211> LENGTH: 113 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Lactococcus lactis <400> SEQUENCE: 54 Met Lys Thr Tyr Lys Gly Thr Ser Val Val Me #t Asn Asp Asn Asp Thr   1               5  #                 10  #                 15 Asp Lys Lys Ala Asp Lys Lys Gly Gly Lys As #n Tyr Trp Arg Tyr Lys              20      #             25      #             30 Asp Tyr Asp Asn Asp Asn Ala Lys Tyr Lys Ly #s Ala Ser Ser Gly Asp          35          #         40          #         45 Asn Gly Ser Gly Ser Ser Arg His Ala Ala Tr #p Ala Ser Asp Tyr Gly      50              #     55              #     60 Arg Ala Ala Gly Ser Tyr Ser Asp Tyr Asn As #n Ala Lys Asn Gly Lys  65                  # 70                  # 75                  # 80 Arg Val Asn Thr Lys Ser Ser Thr Asp His Th #r Ser Gly Asp His Asp                  85  #                 90  #                 95 Trp Lys Asp Lys Asn Gly Asp Asp Gly Thr Ty #r Ala Ser Ala Tyr Lys             100       #           105       #           110 Asn 41 

What is claimed is:
 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising: (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a leuD subunit of an enzyme having 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase activity, wherein the nucleotide sequence and SEQ ID NO:46 have at least 80% sequence identity based on the Clustal alignment method, or (b) the complement of the nucleotide sequence (a), wherein the complement and the nucleotide sequence are 100% complementary.
 2. The polynucleotide of claim 1 wherein the sequence identity is at least 90%.
 3. The polynucleotide of claim 1 wherein the sequence identity is at least 95%.
 4. The polynucleotide of claim 1 wherein the polypeptide comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:47.
 5. The polynucleotide of claim 1 wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:46.
 6. A vector comprising the polynucleotide of claim
 1. 7. A recombinant DNA construct comprising the polynucleotide of claim 1 operably linked to a regulatory sequence.
 8. A method for transforming a cell comprising transforming a cell with the polynucleotide of claim
 1. 9. A cell comprising the recombinant DNA construct of claim
 7. 10. A method for isolating a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide of claim 1 comprising isolating the polypeptide from a cell containing a recombinant DNA construct comprising the polynucleotide operably linked to a regulatory sequence. 